Reuben Jonathan Miller PhD, the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, is the keynote speaker for EMU’s Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Festival. Join us Wednesday, April 20,
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Zehr's new book Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later, checks in with individuals serving life sentences in Pennsylvania. The book is a sequel to his 1996 work Doing Life, which introduces the individuals and shares their stories.
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Though it’s only March, Bill Goldberg is already looking forward to the 2022 Summer Peacebuilding Institute this May and June with anticipation. After two years of online programming, SPI returns
... read more about Summer Peacebuilding Institute back in person with ‘all-star’ line-up of courses, instructors
“Rise Up Together” is our rallying cry for the sixth annual LovEMU Day. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 6, and start thinking about all the ways you love EMU.
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Jackie Font-Guzmán, EMU's Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Bernard Mayer introduce an excerpt from their book "The Neutrality Trap" in this issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Eastern Mennonite University announces two leadership transitions that highlight and strengthen the university’s core values of commitments to peacebuilding and diversity, equity and inclusion. Jayne Docherty, executive director and professor
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Rodrigue Makelele, a 2020 graduate of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was honored by the area United Way of Harrisonburg and Rocknigham as the 2022 Young Community Builder Award.
... read more about Rodrigue Makelele MA ’20 honored as U*Nite’s 2022 Young Community Builder
Eastern Mennonite University alumna Najla El Mangoush, foreign minister of Libya, will be among 12 women honored by the U.S. State Department for “extraordinary courage, strength and leadership in improving
... read more about Najla El Mangoush MA ‘15 honored with International Women of Courage Award
Howard Zehr, distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University, and co-author Barb Toews MA ‘00 will talk about their book “Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later”
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Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby have told their remarkable story of reconciliation and reparation 37 times in seven months across the country, with features in The Baltimore Sun, BBC
... read more about ‘Cousins’ authors return to Harrisonburg, EMU where their journey of racial reconciliation began