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Teach, model, grow and live in empathy to build world peace, says interfaith expert Marc Gopin at Frontier Luncheon

June 1, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Moved by the realization that the Syrian war was dissolving into the depths of a horrific proxy war in which religious extremism was a problem but not the main problem,

Annual ‘Frontiers in Peacebuilding’ lecture series brings in four experts

May 5, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by admin

The annual “Frontiers in Peacebuilding” luncheon series in conjunction with Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University has slightly changed its format. Two lunches have become dinners. The four events,

‘Be the community you wish to see in the world’: Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduates 37

May 2, 2016Last updated July 8, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

The Center of Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University celebrated their 2016 graduates in a Sunday evening ceremony at Martin Chapel with singing, short speeches and recognition of each

Felix Kioko follows his faith from Kenya to Eastern Mennonite University

April 5, 2016Last updated April 11, 2016 by Rachel Cardwell/The Weather Vane

Anyone who knows sophomore Felix Kioko would be able to tell you that his smile is infectious. He walks around Eastern Mennonite University’s campus and is greeted by many students who have become

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

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

Longtime peacebuilding and organizational development professor is named next director of EMU’s MBA program

January 4, 2016Last updated January 4, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

In 1982, soon after he’d finished his undergraduate degree, David Brubaker and his wife Mert moved to Recife, Brazil, for a voluntary service term with Mennonite Central Committee. As assistant

Playwright and teacher Sheri Bailey, an advocate for racial healing and dialogue, brings next Writers Read installment

October 30, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

“A great forum for people with radically different perspectives to have a reasonable discussion” – that’s how playwright Sheri Bailey characterizes one of her most popular plays, “Abolitionists’ Museum,” in

Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program announces more than $900,000 in new grant funding

October 23, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 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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