With alumni scattered around the world, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at 91短视频 counts on its website and social media to keep people informed. Cataloguing the Top Reads of 2016 provides us聽 with an informative look back at how busy we鈥檝e been.
We鈥檙e sure 2017 will be the best year yet for great communication linking faculty, staff and students to our global peacebuilders. Our new Peacebuilding Network Coordinator Diana Tovar is hard at work reaching out to all of our alumni! [To help her, !]
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Both the and the of this event, co-hosted by the and the Harrisonburg Police Department, drew more than 1,000 readers to our news blog and Facebook posts. We were even contacted by several police departments who wanted to participate in the three-day retreat, which was limited to invitees.
The attention continued when we moved the article to the most prominent place on our university website, with a photo (above) of Professors Howard Zehr and Carl Stauffer with Harrisonburg Police Department Lieutenant Kurt Boshart.
The attention shows that restorative justice is on the move! (Check out CJP鈥檚 new .)
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Matthew, who earned his Master of Divinity degree and a graduate degree in conflict transformation in 2015, has been all over the news lately with a special sign that he and his congregation at Immanuel Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg have created. The signs have been featured on NPR, Huffington Post and several metropolitan television news shows. We’re just waiting for the story to get to Good Morning America!
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Dr. David Brubaker鈥檚 move, after 12 years of teaching at CJP, to director of 91短视频鈥檚 MBA program drew several hundred readers and comments on Facebook. He continues to provide his organizational expertise to CJP, while fostering continued collaboration between all graduate programs. 鈥淚鈥檓 excited to see the MBA program keep developing as one of those hubs within a well-integrated, creative and committed-to-excellence graduate division,鈥� he said.
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In March at a conference in The Hague, Dr. Lisa Schirch released her new 300-page training manual, three years in the making, titled Handbook on Human Security: A Civil-Military-Police Curriculum. The handbook, with case studies, policy brief and two videos, are available . She鈥檚 used the case studies in a new Summer Peacebuilding Class class on 鈥淧eacebuilding Approaches to Violent Extremism,鈥� yet another article that generated interest.
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As the W.K. Kellogg Foundation national initiative gains momentum, look for more news, from 91短视频 and in the national media, on this groundbreaking and exciting movement in the United States. Executive Director Daryl Byler is involved in a working group, and Professors Johonna Turner and Carl Stauffer will be connected to future work.
The goal of the multi-year project, which has garnered significant pledges of financial and moral support from a number of prominent organizations, is 鈥渢o address and transform present inequities linked to historic and contemporary beliefs in racial hierarchy.鈥�
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Commencement articles are always well-read and 2016 was no different. This year, 22 graduates earned master鈥檚 degrees in conflict transformation and 15 earned graduate certificates. Of those 15, 11 were members of the Women鈥檚 Peacebuilding Leadership Program from Kenya and Somaliland who were recognized in a in January in December. Four others earned a graduate certificate in conflict transformation.
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Along with restorative justice, readers tune in to anything about restorative justice in education. Professors Kathy Evans and Johonna Turner lead this project. Evans was tapped to contribute to an article about the concept in The Atlantic: her advice attracted about 200 readers, who shared the article on Facebook.
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Doreen Ruto Jemutai MA 鈥�06 was an integral supporter and partner of 91短视频鈥檚 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, When she died in January, the peacebuilding world lost a major partner. Doreen鈥檚 spanned multiple countries in Africa, as well as the United States. In 2011, she founded (DiPaD) in Kenya, an organization which continues. She will always be remembered warmly for her many gifts.
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From Georgia, New York, Oregon, Illinois, Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Hawaii and around the United States: more than聽90 people have come to 91短视频 for June鈥檚 National Gathering of (CTTT), an organization that brings together descendants of the enslaved with the descendants of slave owners. The keynote address was given by Gail Christopher, vice president for policy and senior advisor for the Kellogg Foundation. [CJP is a partner in Kellogg鈥檚 national truth, healing and transformation project: see No. 5 above).
10. on life and work in Flint, Michigan in the latest Crossroads magazine.
This article about Ryan Beuthin, a 2011 graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and his wife Janie is drawing wide-ranging interest. The Beuthins live in Flint, Michigan, where a clean water crisis and economic and racial inequities are challenging all citizens to be both peacemakers and peacebuilders.
I feel proud to be a part of the CJP family.