A new South African chapter of EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) will bring conflict transformation, restorative justice, and trauma-awareness training closer to communities across Africa. The initiative, developed through a ... read more about SPI South Africa program to launch in January
Each summer, the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) brings together students, practitioners, and professionals from around the world for a unique learning experience centered on conflict transformation, restorative justice, and peacebuilding. ... read more about Apply by May 8 for Summer Peacebuilding Institute
The classroom was packed. Over two-dozen people crowded into seats. Some stood along the sides. Others sat in the aisles. Only a few years after earning an English degree from ... read more about Five questions with Professor Dr. Gloria Rhodes ’88, director of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
Nadège Robertson, a Winston Fellowship recipient in EMU's Summer Peacebuilding Institute and the co-creator of Lakou Tanama, is the lead facilitator for faith-inclusive healing spaces that support the mental well-being of recent Haitian entrants living in the United States. The mental health initiative works in partnership with Church World Service. ... read more about SPI student facilitates healing for Haitians in crisis from Wajeeha Malik | The Fetzer Institute
Listen to 2015 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) participants describe their experience at SPI at Eastern Mennonite University in one word. The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) teaches 16 to 20 short-term, ... read more about SPI in One Word
About 35 people gathered in Court Square on Saturday [May 23, 2015] for a vigil protesting the deaths of young black men that has made news in Baltimore, New York and other cities ... read more about Harrisonburg vigil protests deaths of young black men: ‘When something happens in my hometown…I carry it with me,’ says CJP student
The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) teaches 16 to 20 short-term, intensive courses each May and June. Courses are taught on a variety of topics, including but not limited to trauma ... read more about Summer Peacebuilding Institute at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
The Consultation, Conference, and Writing program brings together practitioners, colleagues, strategic partners, and alumni of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) to chart the past, present, and future of ... read more about Consultation, Conference and Writing at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
The first group of students in the Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program included women from Africa (Liberia, Kenya, and regions in and around Somalia) and the South Pacific (Fiji and Solomon ... read more about Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program
Bill Lowrey and Alice Petersen talk about their course, “Nurturing Resilience for Sustained Peacebuilding,” which they’ll be teaching at the 2013 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, a program of the Center for ... read more about Nurturing Resilience for Sustained Peacebuilding – EMU