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Massive Knitting Project (to Cover a Bridge) Aims at Building Community in Pittsburgh

July 3, 2013Last updated August 18, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

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

Mark Shriver: On Being a ‘Pencil in God’s Hand’

April 29, 2013Last updated May 22, 2013 by Mike Zucconi and Bonnie Price Lofton

Commencement speaker Mark Shriver said he had to battle his own ego to address the 2013 graduating class of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) about what really counts: “To perform acts

Conflict Transformation Leads Alum to a HALT

January 14, 2013Last updated January 14, 2013 by Samantha Cole

On a crisp January morning, Barbara Robbins makes the daily rounds at her Linville farm — scooping food to the cats, dogs and horses that nicker and shift in the

Ripple Effect: Grad Leads STAR Trainings in Somalia for USAID

October 16, 2012Last updated October 30, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

A graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), as well as the center’s Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program, is playing a

New Somalia President Studied Peace at EMU

October 4, 2012Last updated September 18, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

The new president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, deepened his understanding of building peace in traumatized societies in three classes taken at the 2001 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) held at

Check Out Graduate Studies for Peacebuilding

August 30, 2012Last updated September 17, 2012 by Lora Steiner

Interested in a graduate education that increased the knowledge of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate? The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University invites you to visit campus

Liberian Seeks Peace Skills at EMU After War Rips Up His Family

June 5, 2012Last updated June 22, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

Togar Tarpeh had hardly started school when, in 1989, the civil war in Liberia reached the capital, Monrovia. His family fled the city before he’d finished second grade, and they

Iraqi Returns For Grad Degree After 8-Year Absence

May 18, 2012Last updated June 5, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

In the eight years since first attending the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University, Ala Ali, an Iraqi-Kurdish civil society activist and peacebuilder, has put the lessons she

Gbowee Opens Up on Life after Nobel Prize

April 11, 2012Last updated April 27, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

Leymah Gbowee, one of three recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and Eastern Mennonite University Alumnus of the Year, spoke with the Daily Observer about life after the peace

Pannell to Direct ‘LEAP’ Program

April 8, 2003Last updated September 19, 2014 by admin

Richard A. Pannell of Harrisonburg has been named director of “LEAP,” a new program being established at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. LEAP, which stands for “Learning, Exploring and Participating,” is a

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