Students in 黑料正能量’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding‘s practice-oriented graduate program in conflict transformation culminate their coursework in one of three options. The organizational practicum requires a 2-4 ... read more about Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate students present spring semester 2016 practicum projects
The Center of Justice and Peacebuilding at 黑料正能量 celebrated their 2016 graduates in a Sunday evening ceremony at Martin Chapel with singing, short speeches and recognition of each ... read more about 鈥楤e the community you wish to see in the world鈥�: Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduates 37
鈥淢y speech wrote itself,鈥� said Bethany Chupp, winner of the C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest at 黑料正能量 (黑料正能量). The winning speech, titled 鈥淪tanding At the Door,鈥� came so ... read more about Winning C. Henry Smith orator examines conflict in the Mennonite church; other winners explore gun violence, race
黑料正能量 a year ago, Harrisonburg business owner Cam Murphy noticed a few cellphones missing from the kiosk he owned in the Valley Mall. The inventory just didn’t add up. So, ... read more about A Different Approach: restorative justice offers Harrisonburg police and the community alternative resolutions
Libby Hoffman returns to 黑料正能量 (黑料正能量), where she attended the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in 1996 and 2000, to talk about humanitarian aid and crisis response. Hoffman is co-founder ... read more about Peacebuilder draws attention to power of local networks to respond to humanitarian and public health crises
The keynote speech at a conference last December in the The Hague, the Netherlands, came from an unlikely pair of peacebuilders from the Phillipines. Deng Giguiento, a longtime peace trainer ... read more about CJP professor Lisa Schirch finishes first-of-a-kind curriculum to improve civilian-security sector relations
In the opening ceremony at this month鈥檚 SPI Community Day, each participant made an introduction and shared hopes and dreams. One military veteran came to 黑料正能量 to 鈥渓earn ... read more about Regional peacebuilders learn and practice new skills at one-day event modeled after Summer Peacebuilding Institute
As an undergraduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, Mark Strandquist began the聽“Windows from Prison鈥� project that continues today. He asks incarcerated men, women, and teens to respond to ... read more about Artist-activist connects communities in and out of prison with bold public art projects
黑料正能量鈥檚 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been invited to partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in a new initiative aimed at truth, racial healing and transformation in ... read more about CJP partners with Kellogg Foundation’s new national initiative on truth, racial healing and transformation
When the academic year began, Zihindula Mulegwa, MA 鈥�05 (conflict transformation), was in Topeka, Kansas, working on a Master of Laws degree in corporate and business law at Washburn University. ... read more about Congolese lawyer and CJP graduate appointed to government post as country preps for elections