Jamil Jivani
Jamil Jivani is a Canadian social entrepreneur and community organizer. He is the founder of the Policing Literacy Initiative, co-founder of Teachers Beyond the Classroom, and a 2014-15 articling student at Torys LLP.
Bio last updated July 21st, 2020.
Articles by Jamil Jivani
Questions from the Crowd
By Jamil Jivani
July 9, 2018
In late June, Convivium’s Peter Stockland engaged in public conversation with lawyer, teacher and community activist, and author Jamil Jivani, 30, about his new book Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. At the end of the conversation, members of the crowd added their own voices to the dialogue. Here's what they said.
Youth workers are really important in shifting a lot of anxieties that young people have in some of those situations toward positive activities, and offering positive ways of spending your time For most people who have a hard time with their ways of reacting to things in their lives, say a lot of young people who come out of the prison system, this rings true to their experiences as well I spoke to a bunch of youth workers from YMCAs across Ontario last week, and most of them can only stay in the profession for a few years at a time before they move on to a manager position, or they move onto a role where they need to make more money so they can take care of a family I thought about the question you're asking, which is if my son one day would ask me, "What kind of man am I supposed to be?" Would I want to say that I wouldn't go five or 10 minutes out of my way to answer somebody's Facebook message that might make them feel relieved or make them feel better? I'm going to be the kind of person that assumes the best of people, which in this case is not to be cynical about my father, but to say maybe he is actually concerned that his oldest child might pass away
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Mentors, Manipulators And Making It New
Peter Stockland with Jamil Jivani
July 6, 2018
In late June, Convivium’s Peter Stockland engaged in public conversation with lawyer, teacher and community activist, and author Jamil Jivani, 30, about his new book Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. In this third installment of three parts, Convivium will serialize an edited transcript of the discussion so readers who weren’t able to attend might experience Jivani’s remarkable story and wisdom
When I learned how to read about these people who were so similar and so different at the same time, I started to get a sense of what the distinction is between the mentors and the manipulators How do we compete? How do we offer a more compelling identity? A more compelling narrative? How do we give...
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A Life Saved by Tears
Peter Stockland with Jamil Jivani
July 5, 2018
In late June, Convivium’s Peter Stockland engaged in public conversation with lawyer, teacher and community activist, and author Jamil Jivani, 30, about his new book Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. In this second installment of three parts, Convivium will serialize an edited transcript of the discussion so readers who weren’t able to attend might experience Jivani’s remarkable story and wisdom
They treat young people and young men in particular as if they are necessary for a Hollywood-esque shift for our species that young men who commit to these ideas and this understanding of a faith can be the difference maker in where the world goes next It’s an Islam that becomes a stand-in for polit...
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Getting There From Here
Peter Stockland with Jamil Jivani
July 4, 2018
In late June, Convivium’s Peter Stockland engaged in public conversation with lawyer, teacher and community activist, and author Jamil Jivani, 30, about his new book Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. Over the next three days, Convivium will serialize an edited transcript of the discussion so readers who weren’t able to attend might experience Jivani’s remarkable story and wisdom.
That, to me, is an almost clinical description of people that I've known and experienced in life, of an environment where exactly the kind of things that you're addressing, the rage, that sense of crisis, that sense of identity, unfold The difficulty that men generally have, and certainly younger me...
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Me Against the World
Jamil Jivani
May 4, 2018
Catastrophes such as the April 23 mass murder of 10 Toronto pedestrians deepens bafflement about those committing these heinous crimes. In Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity, Jamil Jivani draws on his own background of angry dislocation to explore the "whys" – and "why nots" – of male ultra-violence.
When I’d been out of law school for a few years and had gained some experience as a lawyer, community organizer and law professor, I felt compelled to write this book about young men who are vulnerable to being pulled in different directions, as I was At eight, I’d seen my black and Muslim father be...