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Fresh Grads Serve in War-Torn Areas of Colombia

September 10, 2012Last updated September 17, 2014 by Steve Shenk

Months after earning their undergraduate degrees from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in 2011, Jessica Sarriot, Larisa Zehr and William C. Morris headed 2,000 miles south to work alongside Colombians seeking

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

EMU Grad Remembered For Adventurous Spirit

August 24, 2012Last updated September 7, 2012 by Emily Sharrer

Right around 2 one morning in 1951, Cal Redekop felt somebody kick his sleeping bag. It was odd. Especially considering the makeshift campsite that Redekop and friends Richard Wagner and

Surprise! Kenyan Women’s Leader and Soldier Reconnect at EMU

June 21, 2012Last updated July 11, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

Amina Hassan and Samson Sorobit looked at one another across the room at Park View Mennonite Church with a mixture of surprise and recognition. Could it really be? In 2008,

First Women’s Peace Leadership Program at EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute

June 6, 2012Last updated June 25, 2012 by Andrew Jenner and Bonnie Price Lofton

Little more than six months after alumna Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has hosted its first participants in a program designed to train more

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

EMU – A Home Away From Home

May 9, 2012 by

Peacebuilding, sustainability, and cross-cultural encounter are core to Eastern Mennonite University, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. EMU is uniquely hospitable to people from a variety of cultures and

27 Nationalities at Summer Peace Institute

May 9, 2012Last updated May 25, 2012 by Bonnie Price Lofton

On the week that Bill Goldberg welcomed 67 people from 27 countries to the first session of the 2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), he pondered the changes he has seen

“Weaving Life” Documentary to Highlight Life of Dan Terry

April 24, 2012Last updated April 30, 2012 by EMU and MennoMedia

Dan Terry, 64, was among 10 humanitarian aid workers assassinated in Afghanistan in August 2010, but his remarkable life cannot be defined by his brutal death. Eastern Mennonite University (EMU)

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