With a history of violence linked to colonization, intense poverty and vulnerable geographic location, Haiti has long suffered from natural disasters, social conflict, and other traumatic events. That is one ... read more about Haitians Embrace Trauma-Resilience Program
Leymah Gbowee, one of three recipients jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, carried in the Olympic flag with seven other humanitarians during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. ... read more about Gbowee Carries Olympic Flag at Ceremony
One might reasonably expect Lisa Schirch, a research professor with EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), to believe that the best the American military can do in Afghanistan is ... read more about EMU Prof Pauses Dialogue With Military To Do Art
For the second year in a row, college senior James Souder has a summer job that wins him friends from dozens of countries. They are men and women aged 20 ... read more about Undergrads Are Key Players in Peace Institute
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, ... read more about Surprise! Kenyan Women’s Leader and Soldier Reconnect at EMU
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 ... read more about First Women’s Peace Leadership Program at EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute
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 ... read more about Liberian Seeks Peace Skills at EMU After War Rips Up His Family
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 ... read more about Iraqi Returns For Grad Degree After 8-Year Absence
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 ... read more about 27 Nationalities at Summer Peace Institute
In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Dec. 10, 2011, Leymah Gbowee called on women around the world “to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph, our ... read more about Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women’s Program at EMU