Six years after conferring its first award for “global nonviolence” work on Desmond Tutu, followed by a second award in 2009 to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the Mahatma Gandhi Center ... read more about JMU’s Gandhi Center honors Howard Zehr and Vida Huber
In June I returned from living in Jordan, where I spent six years as regional director for an international humanitarian organization. I had significant contacts with some of the hundreds ... read more about CJP director argues against bombing Syria, in Richmond newspaper op-ed
Speaking to tens of thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on Saturday (08/24/13), EMU grad Michael Shank cited Martin Luther King Jr.’s abhorrence of U.S.-sponsored violence around ... read more about CJP grad addresses tens of thousands at MLK anniversary march in D.C., decrying U.S.-fostered violence
In a Huffington Post commentary, EMU research professor Lisa Schirch praised the conflict transformation skills used spontaneously by the school staffer who, on Tuesday, talked a gunman into surrendering rather ... read more about Averted school shooting shows value of conflict transformation skills
After decades spent establishing a network of Muslim and Christian peacebuilders in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, Gopar Tapkida says he is ready to leave his home country ... read more about Nigerian Grad Has Had Huge Impact on Peace in West Africa
On the weekend of August 10, Pittsburgh’s famous Andy Warhol Bridge will begin wearing a massive knitted sweater of sorts, designed, created and installed (save for high-altitude stuff left to ... read more about Massive Knitting Project (to Cover a Bridge) Aims at Building Community in Pittsburgh
Many of the 196 attendees at this year’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) had survived devastating loss and trauma. Yet the final week of that gathering at Eastern Mennonite University began ... read more about “Where There Was Despair, They Saw Hope” – Summer Peacebuilding Institute 2013 Wraps Up
After he got back from the war, Mark Lauro couldn’t pick up his young son without thinking about that night in Iraq. He was an Army National Guard sergeant with a ... read more about Resiliency After Trauma of War
“In order to survive we have to do a lot of things,” explains Carlos Martinez-Garcia, as he responds to a reporter’s question by listing the various hats he wears: human ... read more about Mexican pastor lobbies for religious tolerance
Liberia is country of complexity and turmoil in which 85 percent of the population of 3.7 million people live under the international poverty line. Colonized in 1820 by freed blacks ... read more about Anonymous Donor Enables Liberian to Enhance His Organizational Leadership