LENORE BAJARE-DUKES AND SAMANTHA LAWLER, then-MA candidates, spent their spring 2017 semester practicum with Richmond-based social justice theater company The Conciliation Project. For both women,… Read more about Mapping Truth-Telling: National map will help organizations to network their truth and reconciliation efforts
By the time Fulbright Scholar Myriam Aziz arrived from Lebanon to start her master’s degree at CJP in fall 2015, the U.S. presidential primary was… Read more about Recent CJP Grad Produces Documentary Humanizing Syrian Refugees, Returns To Campus As Teaching Fellow
NEW FACES, SAME COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION CJP innovates. Co-founding director John Paul Lederach challenged conflict resolution advocates to focus on relationships. Howard Zehr pioneered restorative… Read more about Creative Change at CJP
Recently I asked a handful of CJP supporters why they give to CJP. I think you may be as amazed by the breadth and depth… Read more about Why Do You Support CJP?
Around the world, communities are hungry for justice that addresses root causes and fosters healing. For too long, justice narrowly focused on punishment through prisons,… Read more about From the Executive Director: Justice That Heals
WHEN GREGORY WINSHIP MA ‘17 begins teaching a new course of conflict transformation training at United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, he waits until the second session… Read more about First Master’s In Restorative Justice Graduate
FOR 15 STUDENTS participating in a resilience training at Eastern Mennonite University, one role-play activity hit close to home. The small-group skits invited them to… Read more about High School Refugees Learn From STAR Training
LYDELL STEINER’S VOCATION came calling in the form of a persistent acquaintance who recognized his skills might fit a community need. The Ohio native was… Read more about Entrepreneurship in the Peacebuilding World
Jean Claude Nkundwa MA ’14, who works for peace in his native country of Burundi from exile in Rwanda, accepted the CJP’s Peacebuilder of the… Read more about Jean Claude Nkundwa Earns CJP Peacebuilder of the Year
IN AN IRAQI MALL ON VALENTINE’S DAY, shoppers were treated to a unique sight. Twenty-eight young people wearing traditional dress from the many cultures in… Read more about Iraqi Youth Work To Build Culture of Peace