Ryan and Janie Beuthin and their three children grow flowers in an adjacent vacant lot in the Mott Park neighborhood. Ryan is a 2011 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate and Janie worked in the CJP office.
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Although schools across the country have closed their buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators have not stopped teaching our children. And as they have transitioned to various distanced forms of
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The tenth and final installment of the Peacebuilder podcast’s first season features Jayne Docherty, executive director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Docherty
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This article by Nzar Sharif is republished with permission from The Citizen, an independent Harrisonburg-based news website with several EMU alumni involved, including co-founder Andrew Jenner. We encourage you to
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The fifth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features David Brubaker, dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, which includes the Center for Justice and
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The fourth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding’s (CJP) academic program coordinator, Janelle Myers-Benner, who has worked at CJP in various capacities for 20
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Two researchers have taken the pulse of Mennonite PreK-12 education in the United States. Paul Yoder, a professor in Eastern Mennonite University’s teacher education program, partnered with colleague Peter Wiens,
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Professor Kathy Evans met with staff and area educators in Elkhart, Indiana, to talk about efforts with restorative justice in education.
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In a photo taken after his historic City Council election win Nov. 5, Gilberto Pérez Jr. ’94, GC ’99 is surrounded by beaming supporters. Asked for a caption a few
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“When art moves and media amplifies, it brings the heart and the mind together,” former “Good Morning Syria” radio host and Syrian expat Honey Al Sayed said during a visit
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