The ideas for this double-sized issue of Peacebuilder were planted more than two years ago. James and Marian Payne, CJP donors who have been generous… Read more about CJP Executive Director J. Daryl Byler on the Amazing Ripples of SPI-Type Work
These three have never met 鈥� Marian and James Payne, residing in Richmond, Virginia, and Mulanda Jimmy Juma, residing in Johannesburg, South Africa 鈥� but… Read more about Intersecting Paths Towards Justice and Peace
At age 20, EMU鈥檚 Summer Peacebuilding Institute has directly inspired the creation of 12 other intensive peacebuilding training programs in Africa, Europe, the South Pacific,… Read more about From SPI to 12 Initiatives for Peacebuilding
The spring/summer 2014 issue of Peacebuilder focused on EMU鈥檚 Summer Peacebuilding Institute at its 20th anniversary year. With the proliferation of peacebuilding institutes and workshops… Read more about Is SPI Still Needed? Two Africans Respond
Of the 12 peacebuilding training centers around the world developed by alumni of EMU鈥檚 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), only one focuses exclusively on conflict within… Read more about Bridge Builders, 1996: Working Exclusively Within a Faith Tradition
When the Church of England installed its first woman bishop, 48-year-old Libby Lane, on March 8, 2015 鈥� on International Women鈥檚 Day 鈥� it represented… Read more about Enabling Difficult Conversations to Be Respectful
Two decades before Bishop Dinis Matsolo journeyed from Mozambique to the United States to take three courses at EMU鈥檚 2005 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, he was… Read more about JustaPaz, 1996: Lifting Mozambique from the Rubble of War
The news coming out of Burkina Faso worried Emmanuel Bombande, MA 鈥�02, in late October 2014 as he boarded a flight for Europe. For months,… Read more about WANEP/WAPI, 1998: Keeping Tensions from Escalating into Chaos
Much of the information on Emmanuel Bombande鈥檚 early life was culled from an article by Augustina Tawiah published in The Junior Graphic, 2008. In March… Read more about Emmanuel Bombande: 鈥業 remember soldiers holding guns, forcing us to sing鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 not here to be a tourist,鈥� I protested to Florina Benoit, MA 鈥�04. 鈥淚 just have 18 hours here. Wouldn鈥檛 it be better to… Read more about HMI鈥檚 Peace Trainings, 1999: Promoting Cross-Faith Civility, Justice
When Ramesh Prakashvelu, the Henry Martyn Institute鈥檚 associate director of praxis, was asked what he learned from Ron Kraybill, a former CJP professor who spent… Read more about What Ramesh Learned from Ron Kraybill
Weeks of xenophobic attacks in spring 2015 on migrants living in South Africa deeply affected Mulanda Jimmy Juma, though he was not threatened personally. Not… Read more about API, 2000: Birthing Peace Clubs in African Schools
Flora Bringi Francis of South Sudan wrote these reflections after attending the 2013 session of the Africa Peacebuilding Institute (API). Her words have been slightly… Read more about Flora Bringi Francis: 鈥楳y Breakdown Became a Breakthrough鈥�
The origins of the first peacebuilding institute in Asia can be traced to a conversation in the home of John Paul and Wendy Lederach when… Read more about MPI, 2000: Growing Branches from a Healthy Tree Trunk
Twenty years ago, when she was 36 years old, Maria Esperanza 鈥淧itts鈥� Muyot-Liamco never imagined the role she is playing today 鈥� working for the… Read more about From Computer Programming to Military Peacemaking
After earning a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University in 1993, Palestinian-Muslim Mohammed Abu-Nimer applied for 176 academic jobs in the… Read more about AU鈥檚 Peace Institute, 2001: Practice, Scholarship and Development
Much of Sarajevo still looks battered by the sniper fire and artillery shelling of a quarter century ago, with gashes in the gray concrete of… Read more about The Peace Academy, 2007: Detoxifying the Post-Yugoslavia Region
On a muggy, warm December morning, fourteen peacebuilders waited patiently in a rural Fijian village. They had arrived at the appointed hour, yet 鈥淔iji time鈥�… Read more about Pacific Centre, 2007: Responding to Violent Power and Climate Change
As is true around the world, women in the Pacific Islands are often leaders in organizations that can contribute to peace, yet they tend to… Read more about Sowing Peace via Women Across the South Pacific
In mid-October 2014, winter鈥檚 chill had arrived in South Korea. Inside a spacious conference room on the main floor of a newish multi-story building, 14… Read more about NARPI & KOPI, 2008 & 2012: Reducing Militarization in N.E. Asia
He peered through binoculars intently. His life, after all, might be at stake.聽Through the optics he could see the enemy smoking a cigarette, just over… Read more about Jae Young Lee: From Making War to Making Peace
In 2001, Jarem Sawatsky headed from Virginia to his home in Winnipeg, Canada, with two key assets: a master鈥檚 degree in conflict transformation and the… Read more about CSOP, 2009: Helping Canadians to Face Difficult Issues
When Jarem Sawatsky wanted to bring trauma coursework to the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), he turned to two experts he knew well: Vernon Jantzi,… Read more about Familiar Feeling + Fresh Rituals = Moving Experience
Supported by a grant from the United States Institute of Peace, a couple dozen people gathered at EMU for four days in the summer of… Read more about Institute Leaders Conferred in 2004: Lessons from First and Only Group Gathering
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In the years I spent earning my master鈥檚 degree in conflict transformation in the early 2000s, the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) class I took with… Read more about Studying under a Maestro of Peace
Recurring themes emerged as we prepared this Peacebuilder on聽SPI-inspired initiatives around the world. We have summarized these as 14 calls to action. They are in… Read more about 2014-15 Calls to Action by Peacebuilding Institutes
What to do about a world system that rewards greed and views altruism as a personal hobby or (worse) as a weakness? A system in… Read more about Seeking Answers to Structural Violence