The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) educates a global community of peacebuilders through the integration of practice, theory, and research.

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Rula Mansour, a visiting scholar at EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding from 2015-2017, has announced the founding of the Nazareth Center for Peace Studies.

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Honored to make the Stanford Social Innovation Reviews reading list! @berniemayer @EMU_News @CJP_EMU

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Want an update on EMU Professor Emeritus Howard Zehr? @UChicagoMag has published a profile "Rooted in Justice" on Zehr that traces his career and personal philosophy of restorative justice.
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Welcome, Dr. Facci and Dr. Pathania, to your new "academic home" at CJP and EMU! https://t.co/SFNh5GKiEH

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ReStorying the Past: Perspectives from the Center for Restorative History https://t.co/Xt9wIwzqNF

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How do music and peacebuilding go together? On Oct. 1, hear "Songs for Change" as the EMU Chamber Singers join CJP alumni Frances Crowhill Miller MA ‘11 and Daryl Snider MA ‘12 and current graduate student Tarini Nagasaila Suresh. https://t.co/QSEe3xREIM

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Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) Session 4 class photos 🎉!
This was the final session of this summer/year.

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After more than 23 years at EMU and the last nine directing The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), his last day is June 30. In Bill's honor and his many years of contributions to CJP, we invite you to make a gift to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute.(https://t.co/NTFFj38zGh)

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Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) session 3 class photos! 🎉

The fourth and final session begun this morning, June 13. It has been a joy to have all of you on campus to recapture the one of a kind in-person energy of SPI (https://t.co/4XutBk8YhU).

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Happy #LovingDay! ❤️🎉
Read one of EMU's (@EMU_News) all time favorite stories (published 2016) about Mark Loving '19, the great-grandson of Mildred and Richard Loving.

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Session 2 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) class photos! 🎉Session 3 begins on Monday June 6th and runs through Friday the 10th!

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“You are the subject of your own research.” Listening to that inner voice sent Lisa Collins, EdD, on her own journey of autoethnography. Collins is co-teaching Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level 2 at CJP’s SPI.

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EMU hosts historic first Lavender Graduation and other LGTBQ+ events this spring. Check out more coverage at EMU News. https://t.co/BXG016nGPn

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Summer Peacebuilding (SPI) Session 1 class photos. 🎉 Session 2 begins on Thursday May 26th.

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The SPI in-person experience has returned to campus after being online for two years. This afternoon we had the first Horizons of Change Luncheon with Dr. Lisa Schirch talking about “Decolonizing Peacebuilding.”

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Lisa Schirch, the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Professor of the Practice in Peace Studies at Notre Dame’s @KrocInstitute for International Peace Studies, will be the first speaker in the Horizons of Change luncheon series, hosted by EMU’s SPI.

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Introducing Bryan Stevenson PhD '22!!
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We were graced by the presence and wisdom of Bryan Stevenson for our Commencement Day festivities. Bryan also joined the Class of 2022 by accepting an honorary doctorate, one of only two to be awarded in EMU's history.

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EMU awarded 408 total degrees on Sunday, May 8. The total included 260 undergraduate degrees, 92 master’s degrees, 54 graduate certificates, one doctorate, and one honorary doctorate. Among those were 29 graduates of the CJP and 10 graduates of Eastern Mennonite Seminary.

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EMU’s (@EMU_News) 104th Commencement ceremony was marked by the conferring of only its second honorary doctorate in its history — to human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder of the #EqualJusticeInitiative.

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The day before acclaimed human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson gave the Commencement address at EMU, 29 graduates of CJP gathered virtually. Joined by faculty, family, friends & supporters, graduates shared gratitude for lives changed.

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