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EMU Plans 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemoration

September 6, 2011Last updated September 17, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

HARRISONBURG, Va. – The Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) community will pause and reflect this week, along with the rest of the world, on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. Sept. 11 ... read more about EMU Plans 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemoration

James Madison University embraces restorative justice

August 18, 2011Last updated September 6, 2011 by Bonnie Price Lofton

In just three years, Josh Bacon has mobilized some 50 administrators and staff members in nearly a dozen departments sprawled across the 665-acre campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, ... read more about James Madison University embraces restorative justice

Civil Rights trip awakens history for students

August 15, 2011Last updated September 6, 2011 by Mike Zucconi

HARRISONBURG, VA. – Dee Gully and Destinee Karim, both 17, said they had little interest in history or the civil rights movement before being chosen for an unprecedented tour of ... read more about Civil Rights trip awakens history for students

African police officer seeking alternatives

July 27, 2011Last updated August 22, 2011 by Bonnie Price Lofton

At the end of his first year as a Fulbright scholar at the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding (CJP), Abou Ag Ahiyoya of Mali said he has been impressed with ... read more about African police officer seeking alternatives

EMU Grieves Peacebuilder’s Death in Kenya

July 15, 2011Last updated February 3, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

HARRISONBURG, VA. – Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a former student and instructor in the Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) Summer Peacebuilding Institute, died Thursday, July 14, in Nairobi, Kenya, from injuries sustained ... read more about EMU Grieves Peacebuilder’s Death in Kenya

Goldberg, Helbert Named Co-Directors of EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute

July 1, 2011Last updated September 17, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Beginning July 1, 2011, Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) annual Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) gained two new directors, both of whom hold graduate degrees in conflict transformation – William (Bill) Goldberg,  ... read more about Goldberg, Helbert Named Co-Directors of EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute

Disney Unveils “Women, War & Peace” Documentary

June 15, 2011Last updated July 18, 2011 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Filmmaker Abigail Disney says she learned “to look at war through women’s eyes,” as a result of visiting Liberia in 2006 and meeting Leymah Gbowee, who now holds a masters ... read more about Disney Unveils “Women, War & Peace” Documentary

Youth to Retrace Civil Rights Steps

June 14, 2011Last updated July 18, 2011 by Jim Bishop

Twenty high school students from Mississippi will travel in July to commemorate the journeys of many African-American and European-American pioneers of the American civil rights movement. The event, called Writing ... read more about Youth to Retrace Civil Rights Steps

Forum to Probe Women’s Peace Efforts

June 3, 2011Last updated June 6, 2011 by Jim Bishop

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University is hosting an event, “Women, War and Peace,” 7 p.m. Friday, June 10 in the MainStage Theater of the University ... read more about Forum to Probe Women’s Peace Efforts

Two SPI learners/teachers who keep coming back

May 25, 2011Last updated July 7, 2011 by Chris Edwards

For both Sam Gbaydee Doe and Al Fuertes, the vocation of peacebuilding was forged in the trauma of civil war. In Doe’s native Liberia, 10 percent of the population perished. ... read more about Two SPI learners/teachers who keep coming back

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