{"id":41518,"date":"2019-03-08T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=41518"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T21:30:54","slug":"former-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-encourages-michael-j-sharp-memorial-hikers-up-kilimanjaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/former-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-encourages-michael-j-sharp-memorial-hikers-up-kilimanjaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley encourages Michael J. Sharp memorial hikers up Kilimanjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video greeting to the hikers ascending Kilimanjaro in the memory of <strong>Michael J. Sharp \u201805<\/strong>, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations <strong>Nikki R. Haley<\/strong> offered both greetings and encouragement.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MJDreamHike\/\">View Nikki Haley&#8217;s video greeting.<\/a><\/aside>\n<p>She never met the slain U.N. armed group expert, but grew familiar with his work and his vision for a peaceful Democratic Republic of the Congo while advocating for investigations into his murder. Sharp was killed on March 12, 2017, with colleague Zaida Catal\u00e1n by unknown assailants.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve hikers, including Michael\u2019s father John Sharp and a Congelese colleague Serge Lungele, are making the journey to scatter some of Sharp\u2019s ashes, while also raising funds for a scholarship at Eastern Mennonite University in his name.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/dream-hike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/emu.edu\/dream-hike&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1552158949542000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEISNHc44fxLr7JcNV60IvcFORC_Q\">emu.edu\/dream-hike<\/a>\u00a0to contribute today.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The fundraiser-trek has earned the attention of Nobel Peace Prize recipients Dr. Denis Mukwege and Leymah Gbowee MA &#8217;07, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The first recipient of the Michael J. Sharp Peace and Justice Endowed Scholarship, Congolese peacebuilder <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/01\/mj-sharp-scholarship-recipients-calling-is-to-raise-a-generation-of-young-peacebuilders\/\"><strong>David Nyiringabo<\/strong><\/a>, began his graduate studies in conflict transformation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> in fall 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Haley lauds Sharp\u2019s unceasing and persistent work in rooting out corruption and human rights abuses, and urges viewers to donate to the scholarship so that Sharp\u2019s dream and legacy can continue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael Sharp was fighting for all that was good. He saw bad. He was chasing it. He was trying to uncover it and he was trying to expose it,\u201d she said. \u201cToday you&#8217;re fighting for a student to come to America and do a little bit more of what Michael was hoping for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John and Michelle Sharp, Michael\u2019s parents, met with Haley several times.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2017, Haley advocated to the secretary-general of the UN for a special investigation into their deaths. Though she commended the results of the August 2017 report as \u201ca first step,\u201d she urged a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/17\/world\/africa\/congo-united-nations-investigators-killed-nikki-haley.html\">full investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence uncovered during independent efforts by journalists, including a Swedish documentary, suggests the Congolese government was partially responsible. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-congo-violence-un\/congo-arrests-army-colonel-in-connection-with-killing-of-un-monitors-lawyer-idUSKBN1O6176\">colonel in the Congolese army was arrested in December 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video greeting to the hikers ascending Kilimanjaro in the memory of Michael J. Sharp \u201805, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki R. Haley offered both greetings <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/former-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-encourages-michael-j-sharp-memorial-hikers-up-kilimanjaro\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley encourages Michael J. 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