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Center for Justice and Peacebuilding

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) is an accredited graduate-level program founded in 1994.[6] It also offers non-credit training. The program specializes in conflict transformation, restorative justice, trauma healing, equitable development, and addressing organizational conflict. CJP is housed at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, which describes itself as "a leader among faith-based universities" in emphasizing "peacebuilding, creation care, experiential learning, and cross-cultural engagement." One of the three 2011 Nobel Peace Laureates, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, earned a master's degree in conflict transformation from CJP in 2007.[7]

Type

Graduate education, accredited through master’s level; also offers courses for non-credit training purposes.[1]

1994-95[2]

Eastern Mennonite University

Mennonite Church USA

Founding director, John Paul Lederach;[3] executive director since 2013, J. Daryl Byler[4]

6 dedicated faculty; 7 adjunct; 16 additional instructors at annual Summer Peacebuilding Institute[5]

Harrisonburg
,
Virginia
,
USA

38°28′15″N 78°52′46″W / 38.470966°N 78.879519°W / 38.470966; -78.879519

97 acres in semi-urban location of the Shenandoah Valley

www.emu.edu/cjp

strategic peacebuilding

restorative justice and peacebuilding

psychosocial trauma and peacebuilding

development and peacebuilding

organizational leadership and peacebuilding

Jonathan Bartsch, MA '97, CEO of CDR (Collaborative Decision Resources), the oldest mediation and facilitation organization in the United States

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Sandra Dunsmore, Graduate Certificate, - Director, Grant Making Support Group for the [52]

Open Society

Babu Ayindo, MA '98, consultant on peacebuilding in Africa since the late 1990s, employed by multiple foundations and agencies for work in 11 countries and teaching at eight peacebuilding institutes in six countries.

[53]

MA '98, PhD (University of Bradford), co-founder and first executive director of West African Network for Peacebulding (www.wanep.org/wanep/), advisor to the United Nations on development and reconciliation.[54]

Sam Gbaydee Doe

Jan Jenner, MA ’99, director of the Practice & Training Institute at EMU and author of two books on peacebuilding.

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Tammy Krause, MA ’99, founding director of JustBridges, a U.S. group representing the needs of victims, working across barriers between prosecuting and defense lawyers, winner of Soros Justice Fellowship and Ashoka Fellowship.

[56]

Alfiado Zunguza, MA '99, founder and executive director of JustaPaz, the principal peace organization of the Portuguese-speaking world.

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Akum Longchari, MA '00, co-founder and director of The Morung Express newspaper in (India) who is a main player in peace efforts between minority population in Nagaland and the central government of India.[58]

Nagaland

Krista Rigalo, MA '00, chief of programming and training for Africa.[59]

U.S. Peace Corps

President of Somalia[43]

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

MA '02, co-founder and executive director of West African Network for Peace (www.wanep.org/wanep/), awarded the Millennium Excellence Peace Award in Ghana in 2005.[54]

Emmanuel Bombande

Joseph G. Campbell, MA '02, received from Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for his peace efforts in Northern Ireland.

Order of the British Empire

Ameet Sharma Dhakal, MA’02, former founder and editor-in-chief of , an English language daily published in Kathmandu, current founder and editor of setopati.com.[60]

República

MA '02, co-founder and director of JustPeace International (http://www.justpeaceint.org), working extensively in Pakistan, merging restorative justice principles with traditional jirga processes.[61]

Ali Gohar

Claudia Henning, Graduate Certificate '02, recipient of 2006 award from for restorative justice work with juveniles.[62]

International Association of Chiefs of Police

Dev Anand Ramiah, MA ’02, Portfolio Adviser and Team Leader for Asia and the Pacific Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, [63]

United Nations Development Programme

Manjrika Sewak, MA’02, senior program officer at WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace) in , a peace-building initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.[64]

New Delhi

MA '02, founder and chairperson of Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (www.himrights.org) and executive coordinator of Beyond Beijing Committee (www.beyondbeijing.org/).[65]

Anjana Shakya

Ruth Zimmerman, MA ’02, country program manager for India, former co-director of CJP.[66]

World Vision

Farida Aziz, MA ’03, Afghani peace activist

[67]

Jae Young Lee, MA '03, founding director of the Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute, networking and educating peace workers on the , Japan, and China.[68]

Korean Peninsula

MA '03, Acting Chair of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya[69]

Tecla Namachanja Wanjala

Husam Naji Jubran, MA ’04, trainer of thousands of non-violent activists concerned with the future of Palestinians and leader of non-violent actions to protest the situation in the West Bank and the treatment of Palestinians generally.

[70]

Jebiwot Sumbeiywo, MA ’04, chief of party, Peace Initiative Kenya.

[71]

Iris de León-Hartshorn, MA ’05, director for Transformative Peacemaking, a cabinet-level position with the .[72]

Mennonite Church (USA)

John Katunga, MA '05, Regional Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding and Justice in the East Africa Region for in East Africa.[73]

Catholic Relief Services

Arieta Koila Olsson, MA '05, co-founder and director of the Pacific Center for Peacebuilding, based in Fiji.

[74]

Fred Yiga, MA ’06, Police Commissioner for the United Nations Mission in .[75]

South Sudan

Nuria Abdullah Abd - Women's leader at based in the regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Interpeace

MA ’07, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of Women in Peacebuilding Network [76]

Leymah Gbowee

MA '07, chief executive at International Center for Afghan Women's Economic Development at the American University of Afghanistan.

Nilofar Sakhi

Carol Grosman, MA '08, director of Jerusalem Stories (www.jerusalemstories.org).

[77]

Saeed Murad Rahi, MA '07, rule of law expert, program in Afghanistan.

USAID

Dr. Michelle Tooley, SPI '03-'08, The Eli Lilly Professor of Religion at , Kentucky and 1 of 3 finalists for the 2014 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award.[78][79]

Berea College

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, official website