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
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
When Jarem Sawatsky wanted to bring trauma coursework to the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), he turned to two experts he knew well: Vernon Jantzi,… Read more about Familiar Feeling + Fresh Rituals = Moving Experience
In late May, 2014, 35 people from 11 countries gathered on campus to discuss their ongoing work with EMU’s Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience… Read more about Consultations Launched in Conjunction with SPI
When volunteers were solicited, nobody immediately stepped forward. It was a tough request: tell a painful personal story before an audience of maybe 40, many… Read more about Playback Theater Shifts Painful Stories Toward Resiliency
After he got back from the war, Mark Lauro couldn’t pick up his young son without thinking about that night in Iraq. He was an Army… Read more about Resiliency After Trauma of War
In 2001, I took a life-altering journey. A cousin, Katrina Brown, had made the startling discovery that the DeWolf family was the largest slave-trading family… Read more about A personal encounter with the legacy of slavery
Soldiers come home from war with visible and invisible wounds. Here are four common realities veterans face, and nine suggestions for support. Reality #1: Returning… Read more about When soldiers come home from war
I found the application for STAR – Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience – while surfing the net late at night. I was searching for… Read more about Trauma healing with the next generation