Name any current major conflict in the world – domestic or international – and there is likely at least one graduate on location, employing the… Read more about From the Executive Director: The World Needs More CJP Graduates
The original curriculum at what is now the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) was created in 1995, shortly after the end of the Cold… Read more about A Justice and Peacebuilding Curriculum for the 21st Century
LAUREN VAN METRE Acting Associate Vice President for Applied Research / The United States Institute of Peace/ Washington D.C. EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding infuses… Read more about Experts Share About the Value of a CJP Degree
JACQUES MUSHAGASHA MA ‘16 FROM BUKAVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / LIVING IN HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA / SERVES AS PRESIDENT OF THE CONGOLESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION… Read more about The Practicum Experience
Through its previous research, the International Labor Organization (ILO) had determined that women employed by private schools and universities in Irbid, a governorate in northern Jordan, earn… Read more about Jordanian Consultant and Trainer Raghda Quandor Reflects on Ongoing Relevance of CJP Degree
Jean Claude Nkundwa, MA ’14, thought finding work in peacebuilding in his native Burundi after graduation could take up to two years. When, he, his wife Francine… Read more about From the Field: Negotiating for Peace in Burundi
In the fall of 2016, EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) debuted an expanded course catalog featuring its new MA in Restorative Justice program.… Read more about CJP Offering New MA in Restorative Justice Degree
For many professionals interested in earning a graduate degree, moving to Virginia to study full-time for two years at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding… Read more about Limited Residency Progam Enables Professionals to Earn Graduate Degrees
More than two decades after the war that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, the scars remain. Memorials and ruins stand as physical reminders of the conflict… Read more about STAR staff, CJP alumni and faculty aid in Sarajevo conference
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 Winston Fellowship, which nurtures and supports the professional growth of new peacebuilders, is awarded to a select number of international or indigenous participants who attend… Read more about Summer Peacebuilding Institute: Who Funds the Winston Fellowship?
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
Tammy Krause, MA ‘99, was selected for CJP’s 2016 Alumni Award for Outstanding Service. Krause, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, has worked on federal capital cases throughout the United… Read more about Defense-Victim Outreach Pioneer Tammy Krause Earns CJP Alumni Award for Outstanding Service
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!