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First Women’s Peace Leadership Program at EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute

June 6, 2012Last updated June 25, 2012 by Andrew Jenner and Bonnie Price Lofton

Little more than six months after alumna Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has hosted its first participants in a program designed to train more ... read more about First Women’s Peace Leadership Program at EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute

Liberian Seeks Peace Skills at EMU After War Rips Up His Family

June 5, 2012Last updated June 22, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

Togar Tarpeh had hardly started school when, in 1989, the civil war in Liberia reached the capital, Monrovia. His family fled the city before he’d finished second grade, and they ... read more about Liberian Seeks Peace Skills at EMU After War Rips Up His Family

Iraqi Returns For Grad Degree After 8-Year Absence

May 18, 2012Last updated June 5, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

In the eight years since first attending the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University, Ala Ali, an Iraqi-Kurdish civil society activist and peacebuilder, has put the lessons she ... read more about Iraqi Returns For Grad Degree After 8-Year Absence

27 Nationalities at Summer Peace Institute

May 9, 2012Last updated May 25, 2012 by Bonnie Price Lofton

On the week that Bill Goldberg welcomed 67 people from 27 countries to the first session of the 2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), he pondered the changes he has seen ... read more about 27 Nationalities at Summer Peace Institute

CJP, Baptist Theological Seminary Partner for Justice and Peacebuilding Degree

April 12, 2012Last updated April 27, 2012 by Robert Dilday

Courtesy Religious Herald, Apr. 10, 2012 A concentration in justice and peacebuilding will be available to master of divinity degree students at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) beginning this ... read more about CJP, Baptist Theological Seminary Partner for Justice and Peacebuilding Degree

Unique, Practical Peacebuilding Program Accepting Applications

February 17, 2012Last updated September 18, 2014 by Lora Steiner

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, (MA ’07) calls Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) home. Make it your home, too: Join us this fall and become a part a transformative, internationally-known ... read more about Unique, Practical Peacebuilding Program Accepting Applications

Luce Foundation Awards Grant To EMU’s Interfaith Work

January 5, 2012Last updated September 17, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

A grant of $355,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation will spur the expansion of interfaith dialogue, peacebuilding and humanitarian service at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) over the next three years. ... read more about Luce Foundation Awards Grant To EMU’s Interfaith Work

Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women’s Program at EMU

December 12, 2011Last updated March 27, 2012 by Bonnie Price Lofton

In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Dec. 10, 2011, Leymah Gbowee called on women around the world “to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph, our ... read more about Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women’s Program at EMU

EMU President Makes Nobel Trip

December 9, 2011Last updated September 18, 2014 by Nate Delesline III

Eastern Mennonite University alumna Leymah Gbowee will be joined by family, friends and university President Loren Swartzendruber in Oslo this weekend as she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. Gbowee created ... read more about EMU President Makes Nobel Trip

Watch EMU Alum Receive Nobel Peace Prize

December 8, 2011Last updated December 13, 2011 by Mike Zucconi

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) alumna Leymah Gbowee is one of three women jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and will receive the award on Saturday, Dec. 10, in Oslo, ... read more about Watch EMU Alum Receive Nobel Peace Prize

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