Nobel Laureate Has Close Links to CJP
One week after Leymah Gbowee was named a winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, she returned to Eastern Mennonite University over the weekend of October… Read more about Nobel Laureate Has Close Links to CJP
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Pioneering Program Tailored to Women Peacebuilders
In the first program in North America of its kind, 12 women from Liberia, the South Pacific and Somalia will gather as a carefully selected… Read more about Pioneering Program Tailored to Women Peacebuilders
Sri Lankan Rotarian Heads Reconciliation Efforts
Sri Lanka, the home country of several graduates of EMU’s conflict transformation program, is emerging from three decades of civil war after the Sinhalese-dominated government’s… Read more about Sri Lankan Rotarian Heads Reconciliation Efforts
Muslim Woman Joins Jewish Man for Social Justice
“We are different in every possible way,” says Huda Abu Arquob, MA ’06, about the man she has worked alongside for the last five years… Read more about Muslim Woman Joins Jewish Man for Social Justice
Raising Up Women and Children in Nepal
At the end of 1995, years before Anjana Shakya, MA ’02, arrived at CJP as a Fulbright scholar, she gathered representatives of non-governmental women’s groups… Read more about Raising Up Women and Children in Nepal
7 CJP Alumnae Went On To Earn Doctorates
Priscilla Adoyo, MA ’03, Doctor of Missiology 2008 from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Dissertation title: “The Application Of Biblical Principles Of Conflict Transformation In Ethno-Religious… Read more about 7 CJP Alumnae Went On To Earn Doctorates
Trying to Stop Rapes of Congolese Women
In February 2009, Irene Safi Turner, MA ’08, was invited to speak at an event organized by a coalition of groups that was urging the… Read more about Trying to Stop Rapes of Congolese Women
Attorney Seeks Answers in Restorative Justice
As a fresh graduate from the University of Virginia in 1982, Brenda Waugh headed to California where she worked as a costume designer and studio… Read more about Attorney Seeks Answers in Restorative Justice
Women Leaders
“EMU opened my eyes that I was not the only crazy person in the world… It brought in a perspective of global conflict.” –Leymah Gbowee,… Read more about Women Leaders
A justice system at its best
In March of 1994, in my former role as Bureau Chief in the Criminal Bureau of the Polk County (Iowa) attorney’s office, I read a… Read more about A justice system at its best