{"id":42649,"date":"2019-09-01T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=42649"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:54:52","slug":"cjp-at-25-three-peacebuilders-to-speak-at-october-homecoming-tentalks-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/cjp-at-25-three-peacebuilders-to-speak-at-october-homecoming-tentalks-event\/","title":{"rendered":"CJP at 25: Three peacebuilders to speak at October Homecoming TenTalks event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Homecoming and Family Weekend 2019\" width=\"848\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bEXDZa6wXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eastern Mennonite University welcomes three peacebuilders for its annual \u201cTenTalks. Impact. Influence. Inspire.\u201d The free event begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, in the MainStage Theater, University Commons.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TenTalks is a feature offering of EMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/homecoming\/\">Homecoming and Family Weekend.<\/a>&nbsp;Three 10-minute presentations are followed by audience Q &amp;A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2019 event honors and celebrates the 25th anniversary of EMU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> and its theme of \u201ccelebrate, reflect, dream.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Historian and peacebuilding advocate <\/span><b>John E. Sharp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> speaks first on the theme of \u201ccelebrate.\u201d <\/span><b>Tammy Krause MA \u201899<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a pioneer of defense-victim outreach who has worked on landmark cases such as the Oklahoma City bombing and the trial of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zacharias Moussaoui<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will speak on the theme of \u201creflect.\u201d <\/span><b>Darsheel Kaur MA \u201817<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">educator, artist and youth advocate<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from Ohio, speaks on \u201cdream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A reception follows at 3 p.m. at Common Grounds Coffeehouse, University Commons.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>John E. Sharp: \u201cCelebrate\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sharp recently retired as history and Bible professor at Hesston College in Kansas after 13 years of teaching. He spends his time researching and writing, leading Anabaptist and Mennonite history tours to Europe and Central Asia, and promoting peacebuilding.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sharp is also a caretaker for the work and life story of his son, United Nations armed group expert Michael J. \u201cMJ\u201d Sharp, who was murdered on March 12, 2017, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Earlier, MJ had been an Mennonite Central Committee volunteer in Eastern DRC and a Mennonite Mission Network appointee to the Military Counseling Network in Bammental, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/giving\/endow\/mj-sharp\">MJ Sharp Peace and Justice Endowed Scholarship<\/a> aids in bringing peacebuilders to study at CJP, with priority given to those from the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among Sharp\u2019s books are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Calling to Fulfill: The Orie O. Miller Story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Herald Press, 2015) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bible as Story: An Introduction to Biblical Literature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, co-authored by Michele Hershberger and Marion Bontrager (WorkPlay Publishing, 2017).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was director of the Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee and Archives, 1995-2005, and served as pastor in Kansas and Pennsylvania, 1977-1980 and 1983-1995. Sharp earned a BA in communication from Goshen College and an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Seminary, in Elkhart, Indiana. He also did graduate work in history at Wichita State University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He and Michele Sharp are the parents of two adult daughters, Erin and Laura, and son MJ.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Tammy Krause MA \u201899: \u201cReflect\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krause has worked on federal death penalty cases throughout the United States for the past two decades. She is the national defense-victim outreach coordinator for the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project. Krause pioneered the legal profession\u2019s defense-victim outreach, which seeks to establish relationships between the defense attorneys and survivors and victims\u2019 family members of violent crime in an effort to bridge the historical gap between the two.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krause holds a PhD from the University of Manchester School of Law in England and a master\u2019s degree in conflict transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krause&#8217;s work earned a Soros Justice Fellowship, 1998-2000, and an Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Fellowship, 2001-2004. Krause lives in Harrisonburg with her husband, Jeff. They have two sons, Noah and Sam, and enjoy spending time hiking in the Shenandoah National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Darsheel Kaur MA \u201817: \u201cDream\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaur is an educator, cultural worker and artist, youth advocate and restorative practitioner. As a Punjabi immigrant, a student of Sikhi and a woman of color, she draws strength and courage from her identities and uplifts the beauty and opportunities in diversity.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She completed her undergraduate degree at Wright State University in organizational leadership, with minors in youth and community engagement and Spanish. She graduated with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a master\u2019s degree in conflict transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, focusing on restorative justice\/racial justice and psycho-social trauma and resilience. Using her sensitivity as a strength and finding truths and wisdom from her own personal and inter-generational healing journey, she facilitates circles, trainings and workshops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaur is an adjunct professor at Wright State University in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. 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