Joseph Luciani, MA ’13, has spent the last year leading a restorative justice pilot program in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the United States. ... read more about CJP grad helps pilot restorative justice program in nation’s second-largest school system
Among the 200 people studying at the 2014 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) are eight Kenyan women in the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program (WPLP). Ranging in age from 23 to 51, ... read more about Kenyan group begins Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program at EMU
When volunteers were solicited, nobody immediately stepped forward. It was a tough request: tell a painful personal story before an audience of maybe 40, many of them strangers to each ... read more about Volunteers discover power of playback theater to shift painful stories toward path of healing
For two women from an Islamic seminary in Iran, one of the best parts about attending the 2014 Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University is experiencing an interactive style ... read more about Iranian-Islamic women scholars embrace model of interactive teaching at Summer Peacebuilding Institute
Long a pioneer in the field of restorative justice, Eastern Mennonite University will become the first in the country to offer restorative justice programs housed within a graduate education program. ... read more about Eastern Mennonite University launches nation’s first graduate program in Restorative Justice in Education
What started in the mid-1990s as a series of lunches where those working in the peacebuilding field could exchange ideas on theories and practice has grown into a world-renowned institute ... read more about The Summer Peacebuilding Institute draws widely diverse people to “sit and talk outside of the conflict zone”
“When you can joyfully sit and eat together,meaningfully pray together, and feel at home and close to God in one another’s holy sites, then surely you have really become intimate ... read more about Well-known scholar leads group of Iranian women from their Islamic seminary to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute
Ten Iranian women from the world’s largest Shi’a Islam seminary will attend Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) for three weeks in May. Their arrival will mark the first ... read more about Iranian women scholars to study at Summer Peacebuilding Institute
When envoys from Iran and the world’s six major powers gather in Vienna today for a third round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program, you can safely bet that no ... read more about Time to rebuild good relations with Iran, CJP Director argues in Richmond newspaper op-ed
This summer, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) will introduce a new certificate program for restorative justice practitioners. The program is open to all interested in furthering ... read more about Center for Justice and Peacebuilding announces new restorative justice certificate