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PAX service program, predecessor to the Peace Corps, recognized by Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence

May 4, 2015Last updated May 21, 2015 by Steve Shenk

In 1951, Jay “Junior” Lehman, then a 21-year-old farm boy from Ohio, sailed by freighter to Antwerp, Belgium. He was among the first wave of conscientious objectors to participate in

Restorative justice highlighted by Gandhi Center award and state-wide mediation conference

October 3, 2013Last updated October 25, 2013 by Andrew Jenner

More than 100 members of the Virginia Mediation Network (VMN), the state’s largest professional association for mediators and mediation scholars, gathered on campus for a September 28-29 conference co-hosted by

Children’s choir to sing for Carters on Sept. 21

September 17, 2009Last updated November 23, 2010 by Andrea Wenger

It marks the second time the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir (SVCC) has sung by invitation for a U.S. president. It is also the second time the choir was invited to

EMU Participates in Archbishop Tutu Visit

September 25, 2007 by Jim Bishop

Visiting Harrisonburg, Va., Sept. 21, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu received a quilt made by two Mennonite sisters, literature on peace and justice by EMU and news about the role of

EMU to Participate in Desmond Tutu Recognition

August 31, 2007 by Jim Bishop

The Most Rev. Desmond Tutu, recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, will visit James Madison University to receive the JMU Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence’s top honor, the

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