Videos Of Events
Opening Ceremony
This event began the weekend with several space-preparing activities and a collective community welcome, including a, land acknowledgment, greetings from Chief Kenneth Branham of the Monacan Nation, and EMU President Susan Schultz Huxman. Attendees are invited to reflect on the theme of “Celebrate, Reflect, Dream” by sharing joys, memories and hopes.
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sujatha baliga: Are We Climbing The Same Mountain? Journeying to Collective Liberation
sujatha baliga reflects on various perspectives of peacebuilders and others working for change, and offers her personal perspectives on the constant challenge of “reform versus revolution.” baliga comes to and into her current work guided by the principles of restorative justice.
Her efforts are characterized by an equal dedication to survivors and people who’ve caused harm, grounded in her belief that all of us have been both at some time in our lives. A former victim advocate and public defender, sujatha was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2008 which she used to launch a pre-charge restorative youth diversion program in Oakland, Ca. In her most recent position as the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice, sujatha helped communities implement restorative justice alternatives to youth incarceration. She is also dedicated to ending child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence through restorative approaches. sujatha speaks publicly and inside prisons about her own experiences as a survivor of child sexual abuse and her path to forgiveness.
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John Paul Lederach: Three Threads
John Paul Lederach, co-founder and the first director of CJP, reflects on three unique “threads” he sees as generating out of CJP and across the work of peacebuilding in the past 25 years: the proximity to practice, the attentiveness to personal and systemic awareness as vehicles for change, and the noticing and nurturing of our mutual humanity. John Paul is Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Senior Fellow at Humanity United. He works extensively as a practitioner in conciliation processes, active in Latin America, Africa, Southeast and Central Asia. He is widely known for the development of culturally appropriate approaches to conflict transformation and the design and implementation of integrative and strategic approaches to peacebuilding. He is author and editor of 24 books and manuals, including Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (US Institute of Peace Press) and The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford University Press).
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Talibah Aquil: Ghana, Remember Me…
Join Talibah Aquil, CJP alumna and adjunct faculty, as she shares her journey of self-discovery and healing in a multidisciplinary artistic presentation of poetry, music, dance and video. Her performance encourages reflection on the 400 years since the first African was stolen from Ghana and on our own identity and stories. “Ghana, Remember Me” derived from Talibah’s arts-based capstone research that centered on exploring healthy and holistic approaches to reimagining the "Identity Formation" of African Americans and people of the diaspora who are descendants of slavery. She journeyed to Ghana for the "Year of Return" and documented the lived experiences of people of the diaspora who decided to move to Ghana and how that transition and connection to their history has shaped how they now see themselves.
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Sonya Shah: How Do We Walk Our Talk? Exploring Restorative Organizational Practices
Sonya Shah explores organizational practice through her journey with The Ahimsa Collective. First developed as a project in 2016 and now formalized as an organization,the collective responds to harm in ways that foster wholeness for all. Shah explores organizational models, including the “living organism” model, as well as structures that impede progress, developing relationships towards inclusion and collaboration, the development of a guiding ethos, her specific lens, experiences and perspectives of her leadership style, decision-making and more.
Sonia is also an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Central to her core values are transforming harm and nurturing community belonging and collective care, healing, compassion, and love.A resident of northern California, she is a Buddhist and a first-generation immigrant from the Northwestern part of India and most at home in nature. Her two amazing children remind her what it means to be in love all of the time.
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An Afternoon of Remembrance:
Storytime & Oral Histories: stories with some of the CJP founding women and former CJP executive directors Daryl Byler, Margaret Foth, Ann Hershberger, Vernon Jantzi, Jan Jenner, Janelle Myers-Benner, Carolyn Yoder, Howard Zehr, Ruth Zimmerman and Elaine Zook Barge.
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Alicia Garza, Keynote Speaker:
Alicia Garza, principal, Black Futures Lab, believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve -- to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, she is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in 4 countries. Alicia also founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years. Alicia serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month.
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Where does CJP go from here?
Celebrate! What have we all together been celebrating in the past two days? Reflect! How has the program changed in the past and still held its core values? How have we changed recently under duress and learned that our core commitments can be honored even as we change the way we teach and the conversations in the learning space. Dream! We will do dream drawing together. We acknowledge that change is here and change is coming; how are we leaning into it with a clear sense of our values/core commitments -- the negotiables and the non-negotiables?
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Celebrate. Reflect. Dream.
John E. Sharp, father of Michael J. Sharp '05, historian, storyteller, Kilimanjaro "dream hiker," recently retired as history and Bible professor at Hesston College in Kansas after 13 years of teaching. He spends his time researching and writing, leading Anabaptist and Mennonite history tours to Europe and Central Asia, and promoting peacebuilding. Sharp is also a caretaker for the work and life story of his son, United Nations Armed Group Expert Michael J. “MJ” Sharp, who was murdered on March 12, 2017, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Watch NowTammy Krause MA ‘99, restorative justice pioneer in defense-victim outreach has worked on federal death penalty cases throughout the United States for the past two decades. She is the national defense-victim outreach coordinator for the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project. Krause pioneered the legal profession’s defense-victim outreach, which seeks to establish relationships between the defense attorneys and survivors and victims’ family members of violent crime in an effort to bridge the historical gap between the two. Krause holds a PhD from the University of Manchester School of Law in England and a master’s degree in conflict transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.
Watch NowDarsheel Kaur MA ‘17 is an educator, cultural worker and artist, youth advocate and restorative practitioner. As a Punjabi immigrant, a student of Sikhi and a woman of color, she draws strength and courage from her identities and uplifts the beauty and opportunities in diversity. She completed her undergraduate degree at Wright State University in organizational leadership with minors in youth and community engagement and Spanish. She graduated with a master’s degree in conflict transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, focusing on restorative justice/racial justice and psycho-social trauma and resilience.
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