The Harrisonburg Rockingham Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual presidential address on Thursday, August 13, 2020. The presidents from James Madison University, Bridgewater College, Blue Ridge Community College and 91短视频 all spoke on behalf of their schools, emphasizing the challenges they have faced and their plans to move forward.
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Reclaimed police funds could be distributed to shelters, rape crisis centers, mental health services and programs to combat sexual violence, experts say ... Community-driven responses to sexual violence like transformative justice offer some insight on how that might come to fruition. While there is no single definition, transformative justice could be broadly defined as a 鈥渇ramework that doesn鈥檛 depend on solving violence with another form of violence,鈥� Johonna Turner, an assistant professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at 91短视频, said.
91短视频 student Kate Szambecki urges action now: 'We are living a civil rights movement right now 鈥� amplified by a pandemic as well as economic, mental health and health-care crises. You weren鈥檛 involved in the past? Now is your chance.'
One thing haiku calls for, and what is often least found but most needed in times of war or its aftermath, is the ability to pause and be in the moment. Read more on the art of haiku and peacebuilding with poet John Paul Lederach, founding director of 91短视频's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding,
Oluwatunmiki Afisi-Shokun, a nursing student at 91短视频, writes about finding "strength in the denial of hatred" in this op-ed for The Mennonite.
Requests for training from Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute have skyrocketed since the death of George Floyd. Donna Minter, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding's 2019 Peacebuilder of the Year, is the organization's founder and executive director.
has signed an agreement with聽聽to install and operate solar panels on its Harrisonburg campus. Together, solar arrays will generate a total capacity of 136 kilowatts of power, more than any solar power system installed at a K-12 school in Harrisonburg.
As the University of Manitoba's College of Nursing gets ready to introduce its bachelor of midwifery program in September 2021, the program鈥檚 director,聽Kellie Thiessen '95, hopes to see change in how policy-makers approach the profession. She points to a need for better access to maternity care options in rural and remote Manitoba. And she hopes for greater recognition of the benefits of midwifery care, both to childbearing families and to an efficient health-care system.
This July 1 interview features seminary professor Sarah Bixler and her husband Ben speaking on Lincoln Homestead renovations.
Professor Doug Graber Neufeld, director of the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions, and James Kanyari, food security field officer for MCC Kenya, look at the past and future of sand dams.