NPR reported last week that President Trump’s travel ban is having a “chilling effect” on international student enrollment at universities across the country. In Harrisonburg, that’s also true when it comes to potential participants in peacebuilding coursework. WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports. ... read more about Declining enrollment for peacebuilding program blamed on Trump climate from WMRA/NPR
In early March 2017, a busy graduate of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) was asked to take on another important peacebuilding role in West Africa. Woré Ndiaye MA ... read more about CJP grad Woré Ndiaye to lead UN-appointed working group in Senegal
This course has been postponed until fall 2017. Please contact the Zehr Institute program director at patience.kamau@emu.edu for more information. The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice announces a special webinar ... read more about Zehr Institute webinar and online course focus on police-community partnerships and restorative justice practices
Each year, a group of undergraduate and graduate students from Eastern Mennonite University studying restorative justice travel to Graterford State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania for a unique opportunity to learn ... read more about EMU students see restorative justice principles in action during annual visit to Graterford correctional facility
Professor Jayne Docherty, with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, explains. ... read more about Recent events won’t stop EMU from promoting peacebuilding from WHSV TV-3
Charlottesville Now interviews Roy Hange, veteran peacebuilder and Summer Peacebuilding Institute instructor, about the work in Michael J. Sharp and his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... read more about Roy Hange talks about faith-based peacebuilding and M.J. Sharp’s work with Charlottesville Now from Charlottesville Now
Howard Zehr, distinguished professor of restorative justice, will speak at Eastern Mennonite University’s 2017 Commencement. Beginning at 1 p.m., Sunday, April 30, on the front lawn, the ceremony awards undergraduate ... read more about Restorative justice pioneer Howard Zehr to speak at 99th Commencement
The Eastern Mennonite University community is grieving for Michael J. Sharp, the alumnus who was reported dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday. In a chapel sermon today ... read more about Peace worker Michael J. “M.J.” Sharp remembered by grieving EMU community
Kevin Ressler’s visit to his alma mater, Eastern Mennonite University, was planned weeks ago. So too was his scripture choice of Ezekiel 37:1-14, about Ezekiel’s vision of the Valley of ... read more about In this powerful sermon, Kevin Ressler ’07 remembers his friend Michael J. Sharp ’05
Michael J. “M.J.” Sharp ‘05, a United Nations official kidnapped with five others in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) two weeks ago, has been confirmed as deceased by the ... read more about Alumnus Michael J. Sharp among confirmed dead in Democratic Republic of Congo