Our alumni have often been deeply impacted, both personally and professionally, by their CJP experience. Too often they must go to extreme lengths and surmount incredible odds to… Read more about We Can Make the World a Better Place for Everyone: Support CJP!
When I registered to become a member of then Zambia Fellowship of Reconciliation (ZAFOR), I had no idea the journey would culminate into a calling… Read more about Peacebuilding vocation and the Mennonites’ tutelage: personal reflections on my peacebuilding trajectory anchored on a Mennonite foundation
In response to requests received over many years, this summer the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding is launching a Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program specifically tailored… Read more about New Focus on Women Peacebuilders
One week after Leymah Gbowee was named a winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, she returned to Eastern Mennonite University over the weekend of October… Read more about Nobel Laureate Has Close Links to CJP
In the first program in North America of its kind, 12 women from Liberia, the South Pacific and Somalia will gather as a carefully selected… Read more about Pioneering Program Tailored to Women Peacebuilders
Sri Lanka, the home country of several graduates of EMU’s conflict transformation program, is emerging from three decades of civil war after the Sinhalese-dominated government’s… Read more about Sri Lankan Rotarian Heads Reconciliation Efforts
“We are different in every possible way,” says Huda Abu Arquob, MA ’06, about the man she has worked alongside for the last five years… Read more about Muslim Woman Joins Jewish Man for Social Justice
At the end of 1995, years before Anjana Shakya, MA ’02, arrived at CJP as a Fulbright scholar, she gathered representatives of non-governmental women’s groups… Read more about Raising Up Women and Children in Nepal
Priscilla Adoyo, MA ’03, Doctor of Missiology 2008 from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Dissertation title: “The Application Of Biblical Principles Of Conflict Transformation In Ethno-Religious… Read more about 7 CJP Alumnae Went On To Earn Doctorates
In February 2009, Irene Safi Turner, MA ’08, was invited to speak at an event organized by a coalition of groups that was urging the… Read more about Trying to Stop Rapes of Congolese Women