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Howard Zehr Shifts to Leading Role in New Restorative Justice Institute

December 21, 2012Last updated September 21, 2013 by Lora Steiner, Bonnie Price Lofton

Howard Zehr, widely known as the “grandfather of restorative justice,” will step aside from his teaching role at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) after the spring 2013 semester and begin co-leading

Haiti Trip Moves Seminary Dean

June 4, 2010 by Tom Mitchell, Daily News Record

Dr. Lonnie Yoder, associate dean HARRISONBURG – Lonnie Yoder will long remember the story told him by a young woman from Haiti who survived the country’s horrific earthquake. “She was

David Works shares story of restoration after daughters’ murders

September 8, 2009 by Jim Bishop

Author David Works will tell the story of his daughters’ murders and his decision to choose a restorative response to that tragedy. Works is a guest of EMU and will

Memphis group explores restorative justice at SPI

June 2, 2009 by Chris Edwards

Last November in Memphis, a nine-year-old member of Brenda Alexander’s family was shot in street-fight crossfire. Following a painful struggle with the child’s abdominal injuries, Alexander says, “Praise the Lord,

SPI Speaker Champions Abducted Children

June 5, 2008 by Jim Bishop

Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child abducted. In Uganda, that may mean knowing your child is being forced to perform atrocities or being used as a sex

Learning a Lesson from Moses

January 10, 2008 by by The Church Times

This article was originally published in the Church Times. Dr. Howard Zehr “I HAVE A DREAM,” intones the gentle, bespectacled man at the podium. “Dr Martin Luther King said he

EMU ‘Prayer Basket’ Heading to Russia

January 2, 2008 by Jim Bishop

Brenda Fairweather wanted to respond in some way to a hostage crisis in Russia in which more than 300 civilians eventually lost their lives. On Sept. 1, 2004, terrorists linked

Trauma Seminars Help 9/11 Survivors

July 24, 2007 by Bonnie Lofton

A post-9/11 program to help survivors of trauma has enabled some 7,000 people to discover sources of resilience in the aftermath of attacks of all kinds over the last six

Exploring Restorative Justice: Peacebuilders, crime victims and ex-prisoners

June 25, 2007 by Chris Edwards

Crime victims, offenders and communities share a stake in restorative justice. At the just-completed Summer Peacebuilding Institute at EMU, two courses brought stakeholders face-to-face. A former Virginia prisoner studied with

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