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CJP grad student secures funding for, develops first campus community RJ training

January 2, 2019Last updated January 2, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

After spending four years at a university known worldwide for its teachings around restorative justice, Katrina Poplett developed a vision for how the institution might better educate its own campus

CJP Professor Johonna Turner named co-director of Zehr Institute

October 11, 2018Last updated October 11, 2018 by Andrew Jenner

As it enters its seventh year, the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice has named a new leader. Johonna Turner, a professor at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, began serving

Student activism presents learning opportunities for all, says faculty/staff conference keynote

August 17, 2018Last updated August 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Felipe Hinojosa offered a message of promise during his keynote address “Another University Is Possible” at Eastern Mennonite University’s annual fall faculty and staff conference: Embrace students as visionaries

Turner presents keynote at University of Maryland’s restorative justice summit

June 4, 2018Last updated June 6, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Johonna Turner, professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, returned to her alma mater, the University of Maryland, in April to give a keynote address at the Summit

Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: ‘Meet students where they are’

May 16, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University’s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant baseball coach Adam

CJP graduates from eight states and 12 countries charged to ‘maximize healing’

May 7, 2018Last updated May 10, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

At an afternoon reception following Sunday’s Commencement ceremony at Eastern Mennonite University, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Executive Director Daryl Byler reminded the 29 graduates that they were now members

Exploring a paradigm: South Koreans visit EMU to learn about the roots of restorative justice

February 1, 2018Last updated February 2, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Last year in South Korea, middle school teachers Yongseung Roh and Kyungyun Hwang read Howard Zehr’s seminal text Changing Lenses with a study group. This year, they were part of

‘Practical Tools for Hard Problems’ at third annual peacebuilding Community Day

December 7, 2017Last updated April 9, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University will host its third annual Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) Community Day Friday, Feb. 2. Titled “Practical Tools for Hard Problems in Our Communities,” the day’s workshops will

Winston Fellow Tessy Gusim-Ndasule seeks to build peace among Nigerian women of faith

June 21, 2017Last updated June 21, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Everyone leaves loved ones behind to come to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University. However, gender-focused interfaith peacebuilder Theresa “Tessy” Gusim-Ndasule left an especially curious six-year-old son back

Visiting CJP scholar plans restorative justice seminar for Brazilian practitioners in October

May 24, 2017Last updated June 27, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

In the late 1990s, a Brazilian judge named Isabel Lima traveled to a conference in New Zealand to talk about her work with juvenile offenders in Terra Nova, a poor

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