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Haitians Embrace Trauma-Resilience Program

October 5, 2012Last updated December 2, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

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

Gbowee Carries Olympic Flag at Ceremony

July 31, 2012Last updated August 13, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

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.

EMU Prof Pauses Dialogue With Military To Do Art

July 20, 2012Last updated July 31, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

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

Undergrads Are Key Players in Peace Institute

June 22, 2012Last updated July 11, 2012 by Marcy Gineris, Bonnie Price Lofton

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

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

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

Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women’s Program at EMU

December 12, 2011Last updated March 27, 2012 by Bonnie Price Lofton

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

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