{"id":32212,"date":"2017-03-07T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=32212"},"modified":"2017-03-13T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:06:45","slug":"burundi-peace-activist-jean-claude-nkundwa-receive-cjp-distinguished-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/burundi-peace-activist-jean-claude-nkundwa-receive-cjp-distinguished-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi peace activist Jean Claude Nkundwa to receive the CJP Peacebuilder of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jean Claude Nkundwa, a 2014 graduate of 黑料正能量\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> (CJP), has been selected for the center\u2019s Peacebuilder of the Year Award.<\/p>\n Nkundwa has devoted himself to peace processes in his native Burundi. Since May 2015, he has been living in exile in Rwanda while advocating for sustainable peace and human rights in Burundi.<\/p>\n The CJP Peacebuilder of the Year Award, formerly known as the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service, is given annually \u201cto CJP alumni who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to CJP\u2019s mission of supporting conflict transformation, restorative justice, trauma healing, development, organizational leadership and peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society,\u201d according to CJP Executive Director Daryl Byler<\/a>.<\/p>\n