A new South African chapter of EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) will bring conflict transformation, restorative justice, and trauma-awareness training closer to communities across Africa. The initiative, developed through a ... read more about SPI South Africa program to launch in January
Each summer, the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) brings together students, practitioners, and professionals from around the world for a unique learning experience centered on conflict transformation, restorative justice, and peacebuilding. ... read more about Apply by May 8 for Summer Peacebuilding Institute
The classroom was packed. Over two-dozen people crowded into seats. Some stood along the sides. Others sat in the aisles. Only a few years after earning an English degree from ... read more about Five questions with Professor Dr. Gloria Rhodes ’88, director of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
Nadège Robertson, a Winston Fellowship recipient in EMU's Summer Peacebuilding Institute and the co-creator of Lakou Tanama, is the lead facilitator for faith-inclusive healing spaces that support the mental well-being of recent Haitian entrants living in the United States. The mental health initiative works in partnership with Church World Service. ... read more about SPI student facilitates healing for Haitians in crisis from Wajeeha Malik | The Fetzer Institute
Rula Mansour, a visiting scholar at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding from 2015-17, has announced the founding the Nazareth Center for Peace Studies. Mansour will also direct the new ... read more about Former CJP visiting professor is founder and director of Nazareth Center for Peace Studies
Professor Emeritus Ted Grimsrud discusses the Bible's message of peace. ... read more about ‘Thinking Pacificism’ blog: Why did Christianity move so far away from the message of Jesus? from Thinking Pacificism
Barry Hart, professor emeritus at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, completed a one-year project with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in South Sudan. He and colleague Bena Mark, lecturer of psychology at Juba University, trained 45 psychosocial support facilitators in trauma awareness, resilience, psychosocial support, psychological first-aid, peacebuilding, restorative justice and trustbuilding, as well as a range of related subjects that are context-specific to South Sudan, but can be applied to other settings. They also produced a training manual on these subjects. ... read more about Professor publishes psychosocial support manual from UNDP
Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding begins the 2022-23 academic year with historically high enrollment levels across a range of degree and graduate certification programs. And just in ... read more about Experienced peacebuilding professors join Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
While the COVID pandemic caused many challenges for EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, one benefit from going to virtual programming in 2020 and 2021 was a surplus in scholarship funds. With ... read more about Winston Fellowships support six global peacebuilders
Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia hosts an exhibit from Howard Zehr and Barb Toews' latest book, “Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers 25 Years Later." New Press contacted Vox Populi to create the exhibit in 2021, which was produced using grant money from the Art for Justice Fund. ... read more about Philadelphia library exhibit highlights photography, humanity of prisoners from Philadelphia Neighborhoods