PhD candidate in social work & research
Barb Toews, MA ’00 Lancaster, Pennsylvania After eight years of going “behind the walls and bars” to work with prisoners and prison staff, Barb Toews… Read more about PhD candidate in social work & research
Resources
Founding director of JustaPaz, organization for peace in Portuguese-speaking world
Alfiado Zunguza, MA ’99 Maputo, Mozambique Like many of his fellow students in CTP in the late 1990s, Alfiado Zunguza came from a country ripped… Read more about Founding director of JustaPaz, organization for peace in Portuguese-speaking world
From Self And Community To Systems
Mental health worker – Professor – Schoolteacher – Full-time parent – Mediator – Lawyer – PhD student Administrator – Writer – Consultant – Newspaper editor… Read more about From Self And Community To Systems
10 Hopes and Prayers
For CJP’s Future From Early Alumni 1. Preserve the Summer Peacebuilding Institute model of intensive, short-term courses. This model permits students to retain their jobs… Read more about 10 Hopes and Prayers
Lingering Impressions
Of CJP’s First Graduates 1. More impact than they foresaw In the booklet When You Are the Peacebuilder, published just nine years ago [2001], the… Read more about Lingering Impressions
Ten Steps Toward Ending the Chaos
These are excerpted, sometimes paraphrased, from the concluding chapter of Descent Into Chaos – The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia… Read more about Ten Steps Toward Ending the Chaos
Advancing Peace & Mitigating Crises
Dr. Lisa Schirch, director of the 3D Security Initiative and EMU professor of peacebuilding, and Chic Dambach, president and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding,… Read more about Advancing Peace & Mitigating Crises
The First D: Economic Development in Afghanistan
I was invited to Afghanistan for a week-long consultancy in June 2009 with an organization funded by USAID to bolster Afghan-run businesses. The organization is… Read more about The First D: Economic Development in Afghanistan
The Power of STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience)
Of all the programs offered by EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), the 8-year-old STAR program is emerging as the must-do one. Willroy Grant… Read more about The Power of STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience)
Expanding Galaxy of STARs
Founded initially as a program to assist religious leaders and other caregivers in New York after 9/11, the demand for STAR is growing so fast,… Read more about Expanding Galaxy of STARs