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Carl Stauffer

Carl Stauffer

Asst. Professsor of Development and Justice Studies, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding 2010: After 16 years working in Africa, the last nine years as Coordinator of the MCC Regional Peace Network of Southern Africa, I accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Development and Justice Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Engaging with restorative ...More

Keeping Hope Alive Amid Entrenched Conflict

October 18, 2012 – 1:37 pm

Four CJP faculty members were asked to comment on the poor prognoses for their region offered by some CJP alumni working for peace in the Middle East. Barry Hart, PhD, professor of trauma, identity and conflict studies, pointed to recent neuroscience suggesting that humans have an innate desire to bond and empathize with one another. ...More

Deep Listening, Trust, and Serendipity

January 23, 2012 – 3:03 pm

We were stunned to silence as a hushed whisper fell over the meeting hall. Representatives of the “enemy” village had just walked in unexpectedly, interrupting a community peace meeting we were facilitating. Vusi, my South African colleague and I had been toiling for months on a peacebuilding process in Majola, a rural region of the ...More

Reconciliation: Re-Weaving a Social Fabric that Heals

October 21, 2011 – 2:12 pm

In the marketplace of ideas, the concepts and language of reconciliation have become quite popularized and at the same time diluted. Coming out of the turmoil of the South African political transition of the 1990s, it became abundantly clear to me that the term reconciliation was easily hijacked to serve the particular interests of any ...More

Just CARL

August 4, 2011 – 3:23 pm

Raised in war-torn Vietnam for his first 11 years, Dr. Carl Stauffer ’85 (MA ’02) experienced few doubts during his formative years as to where he was heading: always towards peace work and practical ministry. Chapter 1: Vietnam My parents went to Vietnam in 1957 under what is now called Eastern Mennonite Missions. They were ...More

What Have We Learned?

August 4, 2011 – 3:20 pm

Restorative justice is fragile. It hinges on people taking determined steps to relentlessly pursue their healing despite the pain it may bring. It challenges us to growth, to imagine beyond the current status quo and to take the creative risk of feeling and acting in a different, yet deeply courageous way. –Carl Stauffer, EMU restorative justice ...More

Justice Amidst the Rubble: The hope of transitional justice

June 24, 2011 – 9:39 am

The heavy heat of the tropical afternoon sun was almost as oppressive as the news of ‘blanket amnesty’ being granted to all the rebel factions who had fought in the vicious 12-year civil war in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I was with the Sierra Leone refugee community in 2001, “sitting in the fire” of the ...More

CJP faculty reflect on the EMU Attachment Conference

April 11, 2011 – 1:16 pm

Following is a collection of audio interviews with CJP-affiliated professors, talking about Eastern Mennonite University’s recent Attachment Conference.  The interviews were conducted, produced, and edited by undergraduate students from a spring 2011 audio production class in EMU’s Visual and Communication Arts department.  Students asked faculty members how attachment theory might inform their teaching and practice ...More