Center for Justice and Peacebuilding

Where do I study peace and justice? Peacecolleges.com offers updated info on programs in the U.S. and Canada

by EMU communications staff

Forty-three institutions are described in the updated, online “College Guide to Peace Studies Programs,” a listing of American and Canadian colleges and universities that offer degrees in which the study
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Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program announces more than $900,000 in new grant funding

by Andrew Jenner

Two recent grant awards will support continued growth of the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program (WPLP) at Eastern Mennonite University. A nearly $900,000 grant was received from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Howard Zehr awarded Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award for his groundbreaking leadership in the restorative justice field

by Lauren Jefferson

Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has been awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award in Peace and Justice
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Summer seminar on slave narratives at Yale helps English professor on sabbatical delve into historic harms and trauma

by Lauren Jefferson with Kara Lofton

During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people
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Former Virginia attorney general, now against the death penalty, to speak on the issue of mass incarceration

by Lauren Jefferson

Mark Earley, former state senator and attorney general of Virginia, has changed his mind about incarceration and the ultimate punishment within the United States’ current criminal justice system. While he
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Cooperative by Design peacebuilders committed to helping congregations of all denominations through positive change

by Walt Wiltschek

A Mennonite congregation is going through a restructuring process. Its members sense that the 20- and 30-somethings in its community desire a different model for congregational life, but they don’t
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