Peacebuilding

Grad student — at EMU to study restorative justice and civic engagement — wins humanitarian award for recent activism

by Randi B. Hagi with Lauren Jefferson

Darsheel Kaur, a first-year graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been awarded a Youth Humanitarian Award by the Greater Dayton, Ohio chapter of
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‘No better place’: Nepali judges explore restorative justice with EMU experts and Harrisonburg community practitioners

by Lauren Jefferson

Six experts who are developing curriculum to train Nepali judges and law enforcement officials in restorative justice practices came to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) on a week-long trip to the
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Where do I study peace and justice? Peacecolleges.com offers updated info on programs in the U.S. and Canada

by EMU communications staff

Forty-three institutions are described in the updated, online “College Guide to Peace Studies Programs,” a listing of American and Canadian colleges and universities that offer degrees in which the study
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Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program announces more than $900,000 in new grant funding

by Andrew Jenner

Two recent grant awards will support continued growth of the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program (WPLP) at Eastern Mennonite University. A nearly $900,000 grant was received from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Howard Zehr awarded Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award for his groundbreaking leadership in the restorative justice field

by Lauren Jefferson

Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has been awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award in Peace and Justice
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Graphic designer and marketing expert Kristen Opalinski turns her expertise to explorations of faith and social justice

by Lauren Jefferson

Kristen Opalinski is a woman on the go. Even as she hustled to complete a multimedia project during an intensive two-week media course at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the graphic
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