SPI 2025
If you have questions about a particular course that are not answered in the information below, please feel free to contact the SPI office at spi@emu.edu.
Welcome to SPI 2025
This summer SPI will offer three in-person sessions with at least four courses per session as well as a pre-session with several options for professional development and skills training. Courses are offered for academic credit or audit/training. Audit/training students are expected to participate fully in classes as outlined in the course syllabus. Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
If you are interested in taking a course for academic credit, please contact cjp-registrar@emu.edu
If you are interested in taking a course for audit/training, please complete the SPI Application.
If you are interested in a three-day, pre-session training event, please register separately.
Courses for Graduate Credit and Professional Development
Most courses are available for 2 or 3 credits. Please see the course syllabi for more information.
Session 1: May 19 - 27, 2025
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Project Leadership for Peacebuilders - PAX 688
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Identity, Privilege and Justice - PAX 692
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Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level 1 - PAX 540
Session 2: May 29 - June 6, 2025
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Analysis: Understanding Conflict - PAX 533
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Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level 2 - PAX 640
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Design for Sustainability & Regeneration - PAX 689
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Unsettling Antiracism - PAX 693
Session 3: June 9 - 13, 2025
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Music and Peacebuilding - PAX 690
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Gun Violence, RJ, Community Healing - PAX 686
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Mediation - PAX 601
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Formation for Peacebuilding Practice: PAX 532
Three-Day Training Events
Several professional development and skills training opportunties will be available on EMU's Harrisonburg, VA, campus.
Not for graduate credit. Separate registration is required.
Pre-Session: May 14 - 16, 2025
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Climate STARR: Strategies for Climate Trauma, Action, Regeneration & Resilience
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Adressing the Impacts and Trauma of Migration (AITM)
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The World We Dream: Collective Visioning for Peace
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Practicing Conflict Transformation in Community
What’s next?
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