CJP 25th Anniversary

EMU professors and others in the peacebuilding field begin to discuss the need for graduate-level conflict transformation program. The need for trained peacebuilders is especially noted by Mennonite Central Committee field workers and administrators.

The Frontiers of International Peacebuilding workshop hosts four instructors and 40 non-credit participants (this will become Summer Peacebuilding Institute).

Lead faculty with the assistance of staff members secure three grants over the next two years totaling $725,000 to help fund the program.

The first graduate students, Jonathan Bartsch and Jim Hershberger, enroll.

The first part-time faculty member is hired.

Three additional faculty are hired, bringing the total number of faculty to 4.5.

A full-time director of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute is hired.

In response to the September 11 attacks, Church World Service funds the creation of Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) and CJP faculty and staff launch the Beyond September 11 publications.
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CTP’s first development director, tasked with fundraising responsibilities, is hired.

The Conflict Transformation Program changes its name to The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.

The first issue of Peacebuilder magazine is produced.
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3D Security Initiative is launched to increase connections with policy makers.

CJP hosts a Women in Peacebuilding symposia, where the idea of a specific program to support women peacebuilders surfaces.

Leymah Gbowee MA ‘07 is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The first cohort of students in the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program begins their studies. They are from the South Pacific, Somalia and Kenya.

Daryl Byler, former MCC country representative to Jordan and Israel/Palestine, becomes CJP’s executive director. Jayne Docherty becomes the Academic Programs Director.

Jayne Docherty is named executive director.