Summer Peacebuilding Institute

09/26/2022

Our colleagues in Teacher Education are holding a webinar to discuss the newly revised "Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education." Check out the his great opportunity to hear from these authors!

Join co-authors, Dr. Kathy Evans and Dr. Dorothy Vaandering as they discuss the newly edited Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education. They will be joined by discussants, Sheryl Wilson and Skye Bowen in a conversation about the revisions to the book, as well as changes in the field of RJE sin...

09/15/2022

While the COVID pandemic caused many challenges for EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, one benefit from going to virtual programming in 2020 and 2021 was a surplus in scholarship funds. With

08/23/2022

BREAKING NEWS: Eastern Mennonite Seminary and the African American Mennonite Association announce new scholarships for Black ministry leaders wanting to earn a graduate certificate in faith-based peacebuilding.

Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) and the African American Mennonite Association (AAMA) have teamed up to provide scholarships for Black ministry leaders interested in completing EMS’ new graduate certificate in faith-based peacebuilding,

08/22/2022

* *Enjoy this photoessay!** Oogling salamanders. Smashing pickleballs. Time to learn and serve, with plenty of fun and laughter mixed in... last week's Faculty-Staff Conference was all about spending time "Here Together" before we welcome our Royals to campus!

Nothing better to lead off our annual coverage of Fall Faculty-Staff Conference (AKA Fish Together, Bird Together, Knit Together…) than a short video of Professor David Berry at the piano

08/19/2022

08/17/2022

A big Royals welcome to our new EMU faculty, including two new CJP faculty members! We're excited to see what you and our students accomplish together!

MEET OUR NEW ROYALS:
Lindy Backues, associate professor, business and leadership
Johanna Burkholder, instructor, accounting
Debbi DiGennaro, instructor, social work
Paula Facci, assistant professor, peacebuilding
Hannah Ferguson, assistant professor, practice of nursing
Bonnie Fisher, instructor, psychology
Kim Hall, instructor, psychology
Christopher Harris, instructor, speech
Daniel Ott, dean and professor of theology and religious studies Gaurav Pathania, professor, sociology and peacebuilding
Heike Peckruhn, associate professor of religious studies
Timothy Reardon, assistant professor of New Testament

08/14/2022

Join us and support EMU Athletics at the Paul R. Yoder Sr. Golf Classic!

The Paul R. Yoder Golf Classic is back again for 2022! Started in 1992, this event helps to raise money to support EMU athletics and their hundreds of student athletes. Over the

08/09/2022

EMU faculty and alumni contributed to this summer's Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Indonesia.

Featured in this EMU News article are music professor Ben Bergey, bible professor Andrew Suderman, and alumna Leah Wenger '20, but we know more EMU-connected folks shared in the joy of this global reunion.

Tell us how you were involved in the comments!

Several EMU alumni, faculty and staff participated in the 2022 Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Assembly that took place from July 5-10 in Indonesia. MWC Assemblies are reunions of the Anabaptist-Mennonite

08/08/2022

Did you learn about Restorative Justice at SPI? Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia hosts an exhibit of “Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers 25 Years Later,” cowritten by Howard Zehr, Director Emeritus of the Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice and with University of Washington professor Barb Toews MA '00 and published with the New Press.

Howard Zehr photographed and interviewed Pennsylvania prisoners with life sentences in the 90s and returned 25 years later to find out how their perspectives on their sentences changed. [continue reading...]

08/05/2022

Discussions at Mennonite Church USA's 2022 Delegate Assembly were facilitated by two graduates of EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding: Matt Tibbles MA '18 and Sidney Morgan MA '21.

Interested in learning more about how to guide conversations about polarizing topics?

Check our new graduate certificate in faith-based peacebuilding.

Graduate certificates at Eastern Mennonite Seminary are a good study option for students who are not ready for a full-degree, or who do not wish to pursue a seminary degree.

08/01/2022

EMU's legacy of faith-based peacebuilding finds new momentum in 2022, as Eastern Mennonite Seminary receives a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to develop new programming in conflict transformation for pastoral leaders.

Eastern Mennonite University has been awarded a grant of $998,606 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s development of a new interdisciplinary pastoral leadership institute that will offer

07/25/2022

Join a STAR training online or in-person this fall! Did you know one of our most popular courses at SPI is STAR? You can join STAR and learn together throughout the year!

Do you want to learn to build resilient communities and address trauma? Join us this fall in-person or online for STAR training! Find more information here: https://emu.edu/cjp/star/