Heartbreaking and Heartening
Our Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) was launched in 1994-95 to fill a need for people trained to address intractable conflicts in creative, skillful,… Read more about Heartbreaking and Heartening
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MCC, CJP Enjoy Long Partnership
EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) has long enjoyed close ties to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). In fact, it exists in large part because… Read more about MCC, CJP Enjoy Long Partnership
Living in Limbo: CJP Alumni in the Middle East Resist Despair
Peacebuilding is an inherently optimistic endeavor. While it can involve different means, there is a constant focus on an end – something different, something better,… Read more about Living in Limbo: CJP Alumni in the Middle East Resist Despair
Keeping Hope Alive Amid Entrenched Conflict
Four CJP faculty members were asked to comment on the poor prognoses for their region offered by some CJP alumni working for peace in the… Read more about Keeping Hope Alive Amid Entrenched Conflict
Funding Matters
Peacebuilding Takes Time After a brief but bloody war between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006, the international funding floodgates opened. Enormous amounts… Read more about Funding Matters
Battling Hypocrisy
She’s Turning Down Politicized Funding Last December, as Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest against the military council then ruling their country, a… Read more about Battling Hypocrisy
Artful Peace: Alumni use the Arts for Conflict Transformation, Trauma-Healing, Social Change
Arts should be cast in lead role Raffi Feghali, SPI ’10 In one of the programs he uses in trainings, Raffi Feghali assigns each person… Read more about Artful Peace: Alumni use the Arts for Conflict Transformation, Trauma-Healing, Social Change
‘Nakba’
Informing Israelis About Palestinian ‘Catastrophe’ Growing up in Israel’s Hula Valley, Amaya Galili (SPI ’10) heard stories about her grandfather, who had lived in the… Read more about ‘Nakba’
Under Attack: Joint Israeli-Palestinian Broadcasts
On the day a reporter and photographer for Peacebuilder visited Maysa Baransi (SPI ’09) in her East Jerusalem office, the All for Peace radio website… Read more about Under Attack: Joint Israeli-Palestinian Broadcasts
Peace Journalists Needed in Lebanon and World
Fellow journalists tend to react with confusion when Nisrine Ajab (SPI ’09 & ’10) talks about “peace journalism.” It is not a widely understood or… Read more about Peace Journalists Needed in Lebanon and World