How can peacebuilders engage with the police and military in pursuing peace? And how can police and the military engage with peacebuilders? That was the topic of a luncheon presentation
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The first leg of her journey toward directing Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) began in 2001 when Katie Mansfield, then a divisional vice president of Goldman Sachs, lived
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In the summer of 1994, about 40 peace and development workers gathered on the campus of Eastern Mennonite University for a one-week seminar called “Frontiers in International Peacebuilding.” It was
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This essay by senior writing major Lani Prunés pertains to an experience she had while on her EMU cross-cultural in the spring of 2013. Lani is a native of Philadelphia,
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Graduating with a liberal arts degree and a minor in pre-law from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in 2010, Karissa Sauder wanted to challenge herself in the legal field but maintain a
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One of the three women receiving the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Leymah Gbowee, is closely connected with the “peace-church tradition” of the Mennonites. Gbowee, who shares the prize with Liberian
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HARRISONBURG, VA. — “We have cracked the code of love,” announced Sue Johnson, EdD, author of Hold Me Tight, to 1,200 people attending “Conversations on Attachment – Integrating the Science
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What are healthy attachments, why do we need them, and how can we form them? In answering these questions, we can discover how to be fully human. So say the
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Co-founder of the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding/CJP at Eastern Mennonite University/EMU, John Paul Lederach shares a story about sensory experiences and poetics in the field of peacebuilding education and
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A world-renown mediator, strategist and catalyst for peace will give a public address Thursday, Apr. 15, at EMU. John Paul Lederach John Paul Lederach, the co-founding director of the Conflict
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