{"id":45233,"date":"2020-03-18T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45233"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:51:36","slug":"peacebuilder-podcast-when-the-center-does-not-hold-with-david-brubaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-when-the-center-does-not-hold-with-david-brubaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilder podcast: &#8216;When the center does not hold &#8230;&#8217; with David Brubaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-3038764\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/726384\/3038764-when-the-center-does-not-hold.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-3038764&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features <strong>David Brubaker, <\/strong>dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, which includes the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP). In the episode, Brubaker talks about the environmental and generational changes that organizations now face, the tension between focusing on international versus domestic conflict, and global trends of income inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tThe podcast is just one of the ways the center is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. Hosted by CJP executive assistant and anniversary celebration committee chair <strong>Patience Kamau MA \u201817<\/strong>, the 10-episode series features faculty and staff members reflecting on the history of CJP and their own peacebuilding work. A new episode drops every other week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/podcast\/\">Peacebuilder website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tBrubaker came to CJP in 2004, when it was known as the Conflict Transformation Program. At the time, he taught organizational studies; he now teaches organizational behavior, development, and leadership. He\u2019s also worked as a consultant with over 100 organizations, from non-profit to for-profit to governmental, in 12 different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cThere are just some really classic issues that tend to produce stress and conflict in organizations, no matter what part of the world they\u2019re in or even what sector they\u2019re in,\u201d Brubaker says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tTwo major challenges that all organizations are now facing, Brubaker explains, are changes in the environment and the generational shift away from baby boomer values to those of Generation X and millennials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cGenerational research has found&nbsp; that millennials, for example, have a much higher priority on work-life balance,\u201d Brubaker says. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t willing to just sign over their lives to organizations, as happened with my parents\u2019 generation and with mine as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tIn his consulting practice, Brubaker has relied on all three academic pillars of CJP: conflict transformation, restorative justice, and trauma awareness and resilience, which he says are unique to be housed within one program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tAs to what CJP could be doing better, Brubaker says that many practitioners have been attracted by the \u201csiren song\u201d of international work, \u201coften at the cost of paying attention to growing economic and social polarization in our own country.\u201d At the same time, though, the trends we see in the U.S. are happening on a global scale, he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cAs the gap between the rich and the poor has grown around the world, we are seeing the rise of populism and nationalism because that\u2019s how people give voice to their grievances,\u201d says Brubaker. This feeds directly into his vision for CJP 25 years from now. He hopes by then the program will better address the intersection of politics and economics, by supporting those on the front lines of those conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t \u201cThose who are closest to the problem or the challenge are the ones best able to figure out how to beat it,\u201d Brubaker says.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features David Brubaker, dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, which includes the Center for Justice and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-when-the-center-does-not-hold-with-david-brubaker\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Peacebuilder podcast: &#8216;When the center does not hold &#8230;&#8217; with David Brubaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":45234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17436,17562,5642],"tags":[9040,17737],"feature":[17427,17424],"class_list":["post-45233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-justice-and-peacebuilding","category-digest","category-faculty-and-staff","tag-david-brubaker","tag-patience-kamau","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-featured-graduate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peacebuilder podcast: &#039;When the center does not hold ...&#039; with David Brubaker - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-when-the-center-does-not-hold-with-david-brubaker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peacebuilder podcast: &#039;When the center does not hold ...&#039; with David Brubaker - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fifth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features David Brubaker, dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, which includes the Center for Justice and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-when-the-center-does-not-hold-with-david-brubaker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-18T14:21:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-25T11:51:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/David-CJP-25-Podcast-news-feature5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Randi B. 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