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Jean Claude Nkundwa MA ’14 accepts CJP Peacebuilder of the Year Award

May 26, 2017Last updated February 5, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Jean Claude Nkundwa MA ’14, who works for peace in his native country of Burundi from exile in Rwanda, accepted the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding’s Peacebuilder of the Year

Recent CJP grad produces documentary humanizing Syrian refugees, returns to campus as teaching fellow

May 26, 2017Last updated May 26, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

By the time Myriam Aziz arrived from Lebanon to start her master’s degree at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) in the fall of 2015, the U.S.

Singing to Ken J. Nafziger: faculty and former students gather for a retirement send-off

May 24, 2017Last updated May 30, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

“We can’t have a reception honoring Ken without music,” said Professor Joan Griffing at a May event marking the retirement of her music department colleague Ken J. Nafziger. Nafziger stepped

Visiting CJP scholar plans restorative justice seminar for Brazilian practitioners in October

May 24, 2017Last updated June 27, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

In the late 1990s, a Brazilian judge named Isabel Lima traveled to a conference in New Zealand to talk about her work with juvenile offenders in Terra Nova, a poor

Tributes from faculty and staff to 2017 Cords of Distinction recipients

May 22, 2017Last updated March 15, 2018 by Compiled by Bernadette Griffith

Ten graduating seniors were honored as Cords of Distinction recipients in a ceremony held Saturday afternoon, April 29, 2017 at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated

EMU’s Denlinger gunning for D-III championships

May 19, 2017Last updated May 22, 2017 by Shane Mettlen/DN-R

Newly minted Eastern Mennonite University graduate Tyler Denlinger has the next several years pretty well planned out. Biology degree in hand, he’ll take a job at a local medical lab

Festival’s silver anniversary season mixes the old and the new

May 16, 2017Last updated June 20, 2017 by David Doremus

Audience favorites from the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival’s infancy will share billing with works not previously heard – including a film score by a scion of one of Hollywood’s royal

First master’s in restorative justice graduate builds on past to share his vision of justice

May 15, 2017Last updated May 31, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When Gregory Winship begins teaching a new course of conflict transformation training at a minimum-security prison in Missouri, he waits until the second session to share his past. “The first

Graduate student awarded Minority Youth Program fellowship from the National Board of Certified Counselors Foundation

May 14, 2017Last updated May 13, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Sabrina L. Burress has always had a desire to help young people, especially minorities, successfully navigate some of the challenges she herself faced. “I have always remembered the support of

Diane Randall, with Friends Committee on National Legislation, champions faith-based political advocacy

May 11, 2017Last updated October 3, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

The power of faith-based political advocacy was the theme of a lecture by Diane Randall, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), as part of Horizons of

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