Summer Peacebuilding Institute

Graphic designer and marketing expert Kristen Opalinski turns her expertise to explorations of faith and social justice

by Lauren Jefferson

Kristen Opalinski is a woman on the go. Even as she hustled to complete a multimedia project during an intensive two-week media course at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the graphic
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Undergraduate students work, share, learn with peacebuilders from around the world at summer institute

by Lauren Jefferson

This summer, four Eastern Mennonite University undergraduate students worked at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, spending six weeks acting as hosts and ambassadors for approximately 145 international visitors. They were often
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Lassana Kanneh, a former child soldier in Liberia’s civil war, shares his story to help heal himself and others

by Andrew Goodstein

Lassana Kanneh is healing. In 1999, along with more than 20,000 Liberian children, 11-year-old Lassana became a soldier. He was kidnapped and forced to use drugs and alcohol, destroy property,
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To the heart of Nepal’s political dialogue: young peacebuilder returns with new skills to greater responsibility in Kathmandu

by Kara Lofton

Aspiring peacebuilder Sujan Rai arrived at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute a week late; she almost didn’t make it to Eastern Mennonite University at all. The delay: two massive earthquakes that
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Frontiers in peacebuilding: from Pakistan, the Philippines and Guatemala come stories of engaging with police and military

by Steve Shenk

How can peacebuilders engage with the police and military in pursuing peace? And how can police and the military engage with peacebuilders? That was the topic of a luncheon presentation
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