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Winifred Gray-Johnson and her father Wilfred share the EMU and Summer Peacebuilding Institute experience

July 16, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by David Brennan

Like most children, Winifred Gray-Johnson didn’t pay much attention to what her father did for a living. She knew he often traveled from their home in Monrovia, Liberia, to the

To the heart of Nepal’s political dialogue: young peacebuilder returns with new skills to greater responsibility in Kathmandu

June 26, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Kara Lofton

Aspiring peacebuilder Sujan Rai arrived at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute a week late; she almost didn’t make it to Eastern Mennonite University at all. The delay: two massive earthquakes that

Zehr Institute restorative justice experts tapped by media in the aftermath of Charleston church shooting

June 25, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

With the complex concepts of forgiveness and healing at the forefront in recent media coverage of the Charleston church shooting, Eastern Mennonite University professors Howard Zehr, PhD, and Carl S.

Frontiers in peacebuilding: from Pakistan, the Philippines and Guatemala come stories of engaging with police and military

June 17, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Steve Shenk

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

Victor Dogos, Chadian pastor, has dedicated his life to interfaith goodwill

June 15, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

Victor Dogos coordinates three interfaith peacebuilding workshops – one each for religious leaders, youth and women – in Chad every year, working with the financial and staff support from Mennonite Central

New Center for Justice and Peacebuilding logo provides distinctive branding with traditional symbolism

May 11, 2015Last updated May 28, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding recently released a new logo – a definitive rebranding that will carry the center’s renowned academic and training programs into the future.

Peacebuilding graduate students join Friends Committee on National Legislation for ‘lobby weekend’

March 30, 2015Last updated April 17, 2015 by Kara Lofton

If true peace is to be achieved, peacebuilders must step beyond theory and into tangible arenas of injustice or conflict. That belief is why Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice

New STAR director brings vast experience with trauma, from 9/11 in Manhattan, through Kenya, to Swiss grad studies

February 26, 2015Last updated March 16, 2015 by Steve Shenk and Bonnie Lofton

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

Veteran peacebuilder discusses global climate change as a destabilizing social and political threat

February 9, 2015Last updated April 18, 2017 by Robert Propst

Global climate change and human conflict are two different problems, dealt with by different groups, right? Wrong. In fact, the United States military combats terrorism and climate change. Both are

EMU centennial theme to celebrate “past, present and future” of university and Eastern Mennonite School

February 3, 2015Last updated February 4, 2015 by Amelia Brust

From an inaugural graduating class of seven students to 467 for the class of 2014, Eastern Mennonite University is not the same school it was a century ago. Plans for

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