{"id":1477,"date":"2011-02-14T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?post_type=cjp_alumni&#038;p=1477"},"modified":"2014-03-23T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:21:57","slug":"john-katunga-murhula","status":"publish","type":"cjp_alumni","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/cjp-alumni\/john-katunga-murhula\/","title":{"rendered":"John Katunga Murhula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding and Justice, East Africa Region, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crs.org\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Relief Services\u00a0(CRS)<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 2011:<\/strong> John recently visited EMU and updated us on his work in the East Africa region, especially Sudan. Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2011\/04\/sudan-as-tinderbox-and-microcosm\/\">Sudan as tinderbox and microcosm<\/a>. Also, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/video\/2011\/04\/18\/promoting-social-cohesion-in-peacebuilding-and-international-development\/\">John&#8217;s interview<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/ecsp\">Environmental Change and Security Program<\/a> at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 2007<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>I am delighted to be working for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as the Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding and Justice in East Africa Region. I am new in this organization, and I cannot say I fully understand its operation systems yet. However, I have heard from the CRS president himself that peacebuilding is among the top three priorities of the Agency today. And apparently it will remain so for the coming 10 years!<\/p>\n<p>I returned to Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2006 after making my presentation on Minerals, Forests and Conflict in the Congo at the Woodrow Wilson Int\u2019l Center for Scholars before I left Washington, D.C. (The presentation seemed to have been well received.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3407,"template":"","regions":[1367],"fields-of-practice":[773],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1159],"class_list":["post-1477","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-kenya","fields-of-practice-strategic-peacebuilding","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1159"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}