Featured on the cover: Emmanuel Bombande, MA '02, co-founder with Sam Gbaydee Doe, MA '98, of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding in 1998, followed by its ancillary school, the Weste Africa Peacebuilding Institute, in 2002. (Photo by Jon Styer)

Special issue of Peacebuilder features 12 international peacebuilding institutions led by 91短视频-linked leaders

by Lauren Jefferson

How can the peacebuilding philosophy shared and taught at 91短视频鈥檚 (CJP) become more globally recognized?

How can CJP expand its impact in the world?

These simple, yet profound questions asked by e more than two years ago eventually led to the production of the.

This special edition explores the impact of initiatives that have emerged from 91短视频鈥檚 .

The Paynes provided the funds for 91短视频 communications staff to travel around the world to learn about the successes and struggles of educational initiatives run by CJP-linked peacebuilders. Magazine founder and editor , who has since retired, was the primary writer, contributing most of the content after two mammoth journeys to three continents in the fall and winter of 2014-2015.

The ripple effects of these peacebuilding initiatives are nothing short of amazing, writes CJP Executive Director in .

鈥淎nd yet many of them wrestle with the same issues we face at CJP. How can peacebuilding organizations be financially viable for the long term, while remaining accessible to all who wish to expand their peacebuilding knowledge and skills? How do these centers continue to engage with their alumni in ways that are mutually beneficial? The peacebuilding field 鈥� and the funders and advocates who want it to succeed 鈥� have much to learn from these stories.鈥�

Mulanda Jimmy Juma (right), with Professor Carl Stauffer, survived a dangerous life journey before becoming executive director of the Africa Peacebuilding Institute.

The featured initiatives are:

  1. 鈥� founded January 1996 鈥� headquartered in London, serving churches throughout the United Kingdom;
  2. 鈥� fall of 1996 鈥� headquartered in Mozambique, mainly serving that country, yet also hosting participants from other Portuguese-speaking countries;
  3. 鈥� 1998 鈥� headquartered in Accra, Ghana, with staff working in 15 African countries;
  4. 鈥� 1999-鈥�00 鈥揾eadquartered in Hydrabad, India, but serving all of India, with a special focus on ethnic minority regions in the far northeast of India;
  5. 鈥� 2000 鈥� headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa (originally in Kitwe, Zambia), serving all of Africa, but particularly southern and eastern;
  6. 鈥� 2000 鈥� headquartered in Davao, Philippines, attracting participants widely, but especially serving southeast Asia;
  7. The 鈥� summer of 2001 (ceased operation after 2013 summer session, due to decision by university administrators) 鈥� Washington D.C.;
  8. 鈥� 2005 鈥� headquartered in Peshawar, Pakistan, serving all of Pakistan, with a particular focus on the northwest region where violent conflicts have a regional impact extending into Afghanistan;
  9. 鈥� 2007 鈥� based in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina (has not offered intensive trainings since 2012, but hopes are for resumption in 2016), serving post-Yugoslavia populations emerging from violent conflict;
  10. 鈥� 2007 鈥� headquartered in Suva, Fiji, but with wide focus on all South Pacific islands;

    The enactment of scenarios is often part of the experiential training of peacebuilders, as seen at this 2013 session of the Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute.
  11. 鈥� 2008 (a sister group, the Korea Peacebuilding Institute, emerged in 2012) 鈥� headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, but with summer peacebuilding sessions that rotate among South Korea, Japan, China, and Mongolia;
  12. 鈥� 2009 鈥� in Winnipeg, Canada, attracting participants widely, but especially serving western Canada.

Additional articles feature lessons learned and implemented from of peacebuilding institute leaders and a thematic exploration of gleaned from the featured institutes.

The issues profiles many CJP alumni, whose professional information can be found on CJP’s .