{"id":21494,"date":"2014-09-12T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=21494"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:47:31","slug":"emu-peacebuilding-programs-recognized-by-virginia-living-magazine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/emu-peacebuilding-programs-recognized-by-virginia-living-magazine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU peacebuilding programs recognized by Virginia Living magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201cState of Education\u201d supplement published with its October 2014 issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginialiving.com\/\"><em>Virginia Living<\/em> magazine<\/a> listed Eastern Mennonite University among its picks for the top colleges and high schools in the state. The magazine mentioned several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/grad\/\">graduate peacebuilding programs<\/a> offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/\">EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> and grouped EMU with 11 other four-year universities that editors selected for excellence and innovation in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEMU\u2019s two-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/womens-leadership\/\">Women\u2019s Peacebuilding Leadership Program<\/a> and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/\">Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a> connect students with internationally known figures associated with fostering world peace,\u201d <em>Virginia Living <\/em>wrote.<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/09\/Virginia_Living_large2_Zucconi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21497 \" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/09\/Virginia_Living_large2_Zucconi-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Zucconi\" width=\"182\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upscale magazine is distributed across the state and advertises a readership of 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Founded 20 years ago, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding was one of the first university programs to offer a master\u2019s degree in peacebuilding and related disciplines. At least 450 alumni of its master\u2019s or graduate certificate programs \u2013 among them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/peacebuilding\/leymah-gbowee\/\">2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee<\/a> \u2013 live and work in 60 countries on six continents. About 5,000 people from at least 120 countries have participated in non-degree study, often taking Summer Peacebuilding Institute classes or trainings in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/star\/\">Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/star\/\">STAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Somalia to the South Pacific to Washington D.C., CJP prepares peacebuilders to change the world, one community at a time,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/jb459\">Daryl Byler<\/a>, executive director of CJP.<\/p>\n<p>At the undergraduate level, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/applied-social-sciences\/peacebuilding\/\">EMU\u2019s peacebuilding and development major<\/a> is one of the university\u2019s five most popular programs in terms of enrollment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201cState of Education\u201d supplement published with its October 2014 issue, Virginia Living magazine listed Eastern Mennonite University among its picks for the top colleges and high schools in <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/emu-peacebuilding-programs-recognized-by-virginia-living-magazine-2\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU peacebuilding programs recognized by Virginia Living magazine<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":21499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,12503,264,14145,12537,12499],"tags":[10545,10067,5690],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-21494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-cjp","category-graduate-programs","category-peacebuilding-and-development","category-star","category-spi","tag-daryl-byler","tag-leymah-gbowee","tag-peacebuilding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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