When Lisa Schirch was asked to teach a course on violent extremism at the 2016 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the peacebuilding expert took an online tour… Read more about Lisa Schirch Teaches Popular New SPI Course in ‘Peacebuilding Approaches to Violent Extremism’
The Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program curriculum fuses theory and practice, with each student developing an intervention project through which she into practice skills and knowledge… Read more about WPLP: Roselyne Onunga’s Impactful Intervention With the Luo and Kalenjin Communities
Eight women who comprise the fourth cohort of Eastern Mennonite University’s Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program began their intensive studies at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute this… Read more about Fourth Cohort of Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program Begins Studies at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute
The meeting began with an unlikely handshake between the two South Africans, Tsidiso and Paul, black teenager and white policeman, orphan and murderer. Nearly a decade… Read more about CJP faculty and partners join in the National Racial Reconciliation Process
In January, the focus was restorative justice and trauma healing; in February, campus sexual assault. In March, the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice webinar looked… Read more about Zehr Institute Webinars Explore the Frontiers of Restorative Justice
At the heart of the first e-journal published by CJP is an invitation. Readers are welcomed to reflect along with co-authors Professor Jayne Docherty and Mikhala Lantz- Simmons,… Read more about CJP-Authored E-Journal Series on Peacebuilding Origins and Values Now Available Online
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
Two decades before Bishop Dinis Matsolo journeyed from Mozambique to the United States to take three courses at EMU’s 2005 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, he was… Read more about JustaPaz, 1996: Lifting Mozambique from the Rubble of War
The news coming out of Burkina Faso worried Emmanuel Bombande, MA ’02, in late October 2014 as he boarded a flight for Europe. For months,… Read more about WANEP/WAPI, 1998: Keeping Tensions from Escalating into Chaos