Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Archives - Page 55 of 98

A Different Approach: restorative justice offers Harrisonburg police and the community alternative resolutions

March 15, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Pete DeLea

About a year ago, Harrisonburg business owner Cam Murphy noticed a few cellphones missing from the kiosk he owned in the Valley Mall. The inventory just didn’t add up. So,

Peacebuilder draws attention to power of local networks to respond to humanitarian and public health crises

March 13, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by EMU communications staff

Libby Hoffman returns to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), where she attended the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in 1996 and 2000, to talk about humanitarian aid and crisis response. Hoffman is co-founder

Global practitioners reflect on impact of Howard Zehr’s ‘Changing Lenses’ in international journal of restorative justice

March 10, 2016Last updated March 15, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

When Howard Zehr, now a distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), was working on his best-known book, Changing Lenses, in the

‘Conversations on Sexual Violence’ symposium aims to nurture community-building and resilience

March 9, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek and Lauren Jefferson

A multi-year research project on domestic violence, under the direction of professor Carolyn Stauffer, will be highlighted in a community education symposium at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. The

CJP professor Lisa Schirch finishes first-of-a-kind curriculum to improve civilian-security sector relations

March 1, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

The keynote speech at a conference last December in the The Hague, the Netherlands, came from an unlikely pair of peacebuilders from the Phillipines. Deng Giguiento, a longtime peace trainer

Regional peacebuilders learn and practice new skills at one-day event modeled after Summer Peacebuilding Institute

February 11, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

In the opening ceremony at this month’s SPI Community Day, each participant made an introduction and shared hopes and dreams. One military veteran came to Eastern Mennonite University to “learn

Artist-activist connects communities in and out of prison with bold public art projects

February 9, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

As an undergraduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, Mark Strandquist began the “Windows from Prison” project that continues today. He asks incarcerated men, women, and teens to respond to

EMU leadership conference to create a new paradigm of “Leading into the Common Good”

February 5, 2016Last updated April 10, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Author and speaker Peter Block headlines a list of notable speakers for “Leading into the Common Good: An Anabaptist Perspective,” a conference for practitioners, scholars and students April 7-9, 2016,

CJP partners with Kellogg Foundation’s new national initiative on truth, racial healing and transformation

February 2, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been invited to partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in a new initiative aimed at truth, racial healing and transformation in

Defense-victim outreach pioneer Tammy Krause earns CJP Alumni Award for Outstanding Service

January 28, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Tammy Krause, a 1999 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been selected for the center’s Alumni Award for Outstanding Service. Krause, a resident of

Quick Links