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Laying Down the Law at Harvard

November 9, 2011Last updated September 18, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

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

Peace Lecturer Questions Need of World War II

October 27, 2011Last updated October 31, 2011 by Scott Borgelt

Article courtesy Bluffton University BLUFFTON, Ohio—The necessity of World War II isn’t as clear-cut as widely believed, Bluffton University’s Keeney Peace Lecturer told a campus audience Oct. 25. The reasons

Art, Peacebuilding Combine in Exhibition

October 27, 2011Last updated January 18, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Eastern Mennonite University’s Visual and Communication Arts (VaCA), in collaboration with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), presents artist-in-residence and CJP student Frances Miller and her art/performance installation “Renaming

Humility Links Nobel Winner and Alum Who Was Killed

October 19, 2011Last updated December 22, 2011 by Bonnie Price Lofton and Mike Zucconi

Being humble in the face of adversity and joy intertwined two alumni honored for their devotion to peace and relief of suffering on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, at Eastern Mennonite

Nobel Prize Winner Connected to Peace-Church Tradition

October 7, 2011Last updated March 27, 2012 by Bonnie Price Lofton

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

African police officer seeking alternatives

July 27, 2011Last updated August 22, 2011 by Bonnie Price Lofton

At the end of his first year as a Fulbright scholar at the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding (CJP), Abou Ag Ahiyoya of Mali said he has been impressed with

At Interfaith Peace Camp, seeds of friendship sprout in fun

June 21, 2011Last updated July 20, 2011 by Chris Edwards

What does a bike-powered ice-cream maker have to do with peace and justice? A lot, for the 47 children from grades 1-6 attending June’s Interfaith Peace Camp — a collaboration

Forum to Probe Women’s Peace Efforts

June 3, 2011Last updated June 6, 2011 by Jim Bishop

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University is hosting an event, “Women, War and Peace,” 7 p.m. Friday, June 10 in the MainStage Theater of the University

EMU professor Lisa Schirch with Pakistani graduates of EMU's masters program in conflict transformation, Ali Gohar (l.) and Jennifer Jag Jivan (right).

Fuel for Extremism Is Beyond Bin Laden, EMU Prof Says

May 4, 2011Last updated September 17, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Pakistan-based graduates of Eastern Mennonite University say U.S. military policy in their country has fed extremism and that, sadly, such extremism may not subside with the death of Osama bin

Promoting Social Cohesion in Peacebuilding and International Development

April 18, 2011 by

John Katunga Murhula (CJP MA ’05) works at Catholic Relief Services where he is the regional technical advisor for peacebuilding and justice in East Africa. Katunga is based in Nairobi,

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