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Student-produced documentary about Michael J. Sharp ’05 to premiere at EMU

April 17, 2019Last updated April 22, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A student-produced documentary about slain United Nations armed group expert and peacebuilder MJ Sharp ‘05 will premiere at Eastern Mennonite University in April. “No Longer Theory” focuses on Sharp and

CJP announces leadership transition

April 16, 2019Last updated January 6, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

As Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding begins its 25th anniversary year, a leadership transition is taking place. Daryl Byler, CJP’s executive director since 2013, has accepted a

Record number of gifts lifts third annual LovEMU Day

April 15, 2019Last updated April 18, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

With a record-setting number of gifts on April 10’s LovEMU Giving Day, Eastern Mennonite University donors helped students access valuable courses, get to know caring professors, go on their cross-cultural

EMU’s D.C. program offers policy and advocacy internship opportunities to support new majors

March 25, 2019Last updated March 25, 2019 by Karlyn Gehring and Lauren Jefferson

A spring semester visit by Eastern Mennonite University students, history professors Mark Metzler Sawin, Mary Sprunger and Ji Eun Kim, and career services director Kimberly Phillips highlighted internship opportunities in

‘Borders, Jails, and Long Drives in the Desert’: Immigrant rights attorney Kara Hartzler ’94 to present Keim Lecture

March 15, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Federal public defender, immigrant rights attorney and playwright Kara Hartzler ’94 will give the spring 2019 Keim Lecture Series presentation at Eastern Mennonite University. Titled “Borders, Jails, and Long Drives

Three CJP alumni featured in Virginia Humanities immigrant interviews exhibit

March 14, 2019Last updated April 2, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A new video collection of interviews of immigrants by Virginia Humanities and the Library of Virginia will feature three graduates of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern

Professor Carl Stauffer presents keynote at Harvard Law School’s restorative justice symposium

February 28, 2019Last updated March 11, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Carl Stauffer, co-director of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, offered a keynote address at a restorative justice symposium at

Area teens attend CJP-hosted arts-based peacebuilding workshop

February 27, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Eight Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate students collaborated to plan and lead an arts-based peacebuilding workshop for local refugee and immigrant students last weekend. More than 30 students from Harrisonburg High

FSU professor, a leader in indigenous nursing research, talks health inequities, historical trauma

February 27, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

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Two Nobel laureates, Jane Fonda among honorary coaches for Michael J. Sharp memorial Kilimanjaro trekkers

February 22, 2019Last updated February 22, 2019 by admin

Two Nobel Prize laureates, a famous actress and activist, a Fortune 500 CEO, a playwright and an investigative journalist — all have signed on as honorary coaches in support of

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