http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/ Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:50 -0800 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:50 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2643/buddyicons/41681663@N04.jpg?1250864090#41681663@N04 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182050166/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182050166/" title="Peacebuilder-fall-winter-2010-cover"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1401/5182050166_008b0c3987_m.jpg" width="185" height="240" alt="Peacebuilder-fall-winter-2010-cover" /></a></p> <p>This issue of Peacebuilder, which looks back at what<br /> happened to the first three dozen people who earned master’s degrees<br /> or graduate certificates in what was then called the Conflict Transformation<br /> Program. By any standards, this group has made a huge<br /> impact. They have founded new institutions, including the powerful<br /> West African Network for Peacebuilding, written or edited influential<br /> books, such as Critical Issues in Restorative Justice, and risen to the<br /> leadership of existing organizations, such as the Peace Corps and<br /> Habitat for Humanity. But, as a group, they have also declared that<br /> their peace work will not be conducted at the expense of those closest<br /> to them. In various ways, they have made sure to honor their families<br /> and communities of origin, to pay attention to the well-being of their<br /> children, and to remember the Spirit that guides us all.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:50 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:50-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182050166 Peacebuilder-fall-winter-2010-cover <p>This issue of Peacebuilder, which looks back at what<br /> happened to the first three dozen people who earned master’s degrees<br /> or graduate certificates in what was then called the Conflict Transformation<br /> Program. By any standards, this group has made a huge<br /> impact. They have founded new institutions, including the powerful<br /> West African Network for Peacebuilding, written or edited influential<br /> books, such as Critical Issues in Restorative Justice, and risen to the<br /> leadership of existing organizations, such as the Peace Corps and<br /> Habitat for Humanity. But, as a group, they have also declared that<br /> their peace work will not be conducted at the expense of those closest<br /> to them. In various ways, they have made sure to honor their families<br /> and communities of origin, to pay attention to the well-being of their<br /> children, and to remember the Spirit that guides us all.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449957/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449957/" title="Tammy. Hannah, and Christine"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1288/5181449957_0d2773ed65_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="Tammy. Hannah, and Christine" /></a></p> <p> Spring of '98: Tammy Krause, Hannah Mack Lapp, Christine Poulson</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:48 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:48-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449957 Tammy. Hannah, and Christine <p> Spring of '98: Tammy Krause, Hannah Mack Lapp, Christine Poulson</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education tammy emu krause peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder christinepoulson hannahmacklapp http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182050016/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182050016/" title="Sam Doe"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4103/5182050016_45cdf61351_m.jpg" width="240" height="167" alt="Sam Doe" /></a></p> <p>WANEP founders Sam G. Doe and Emmanuel Bombande at SPI 1997</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:46 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:46-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182050016 Sam Doe <p>WANEP founders Sam G. Doe and Emmanuel Bombande at SPI 1997</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education sam g doe emu emmanuel peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder wanep bombande http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449873/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449873/" title="Zunguza, McKay, and Barge"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/5181449873_50a8b3bd32_m.jpg" width="240" height="165" alt="Zunguza, McKay, and Barge" /></a></p> <p>Alfiado Zunguza (right) with fellow students Alastair McKay (left)<br /> and Nathan Barge (center) in the fall of 1997.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:46 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:46-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449873 Zunguza, McKay, and Barge <p>Alfiado Zunguza (right) with fellow students Alastair McKay (left)<br /> and Nathan Barge (center) in the fall of 1997.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine fall education mckay nathan emu 1997 alastair barge peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder alfiando zungunza http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049958/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049958/" title="Howard Zehr with Tammy Krause"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/5182049958_c67849dc94_m.jpg" width="240" height="164" alt="Howard Zehr with Tammy Krause" /></a></p> <p>CJP professor Howard Zehr with Tammy Krause in spring of '98</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:45 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:45-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049958 Howard Zehr with Tammy Krause <p>CJP professor Howard Zehr with Tammy Krause in spring of '98</p> PeacebuilderMagazine spring education howard emu 1998 krause tamm peacebuilding cjp zehr peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449823/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449823/" title="Jean Ndayizigiye and family"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/5181449823_362096d9b7_m.jpg" width="172" height="240" alt="Jean Ndayizigiye and family" /></a></p> <p>Jean Ndayizigiye (rear) in '90s, with wife, daughters, and Hadley Jenner</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:44 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:44-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449823 Jean Ndayizigiye and family <p>Jean Ndayizigiye (rear) in '90s, with wife, daughters, and Hadley Jenner</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education jean hadley emu 90s jenner peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder ndayizigiye http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049914/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049914/" title="1998 Recognition Ceremony"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1346/5182049914_cab56b36ff_m.jpg" width="240" height="166" alt="1998 Recognition Ceremony" /></a></p> <p>NIne of the earliest CTP graduates, pictured in a 1998 recognition ceremony: (from left) Hadley Jenner, Moe Kyaw Tun, Pat Hostetter Martin,<br /> Sam Gbaydee Doe, Janet Evergreeen, Jim Hershberger, David Schwinghamer, Hannah Mack Lapp, and Tim Ruebke.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:43 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:43-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049914 1998 Recognition Ceremony <p>NIne of the earliest CTP graduates, pictured in a 1998 recognition ceremony: (from left) Hadley Jenner, Moe Kyaw Tun, Pat Hostetter Martin,<br /> Sam Gbaydee Doe, Janet Evergreeen, Jim Hershberger, David Schwinghamer, Hannah Mack Lapp, and Tim Ruebke.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education ceremony emu 1998 recognition peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder hannahmacklapp hadleyjenner moekyawtun pathostettermartin samgbaydeedoe janetevergreeen jimhershberger davidschwinghamer andtimruebke http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449765/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449765/" title="Alfiado Zunguza"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4149/5181449765_ce41044735_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Alfiado Zunguza" /></a></p> <p>Alfiado Zunguza MA '99<br /> Alfiado returned to Mozambique after his summer of<br /> peace studies, he established a department, JustaPaz (“Just-<br /> Peace”), within his church to do ongoing peace work.<br /> From its modest beginnings, JustaPaz has grown to be the<br /> most influential peace organization in the Portuguese-speaking<br /> world. Headquartered in Maputo, Mozambique, JustaPaz now<br /> has its own building, 13 staff members, and an annual operating<br /> budget of $400,000. It receives support from German, Swedish,<br /> Norwegian, and Canadian organizations, as well as its original<br /> parent, the United Methodist Church.<br /> The establishment of JustaPaz was, in part, an outgrowth of<br /> efforts by the Methodist bishop of Mozambique to get the two<br /> major warring parties – known as FRELIMO and RENAMO –<br /> to negotiate their way toward a peace agreement. (An agreement<br /> was signed in 1992.)</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:43 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:43-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449765 Alfiado Zunguza <p>Alfiado Zunguza MA '99<br /> Alfiado returned to Mozambique after his summer of<br /> peace studies, he established a department, JustaPaz (“Just-<br /> Peace”), within his church to do ongoing peace work.<br /> From its modest beginnings, JustaPaz has grown to be the<br /> most influential peace organization in the Portuguese-speaking<br /> world. Headquartered in Maputo, Mozambique, JustaPaz now<br /> has its own building, 13 staff members, and an annual operating<br /> budget of $400,000. It receives support from German, Swedish,<br /> Norwegian, and Canadian organizations, as well as its original<br /> parent, the United Methodist Church.<br /> The establishment of JustaPaz was, in part, an outgrowth of<br /> efforts by the Methodist bishop of Mozambique to get the two<br /> major warring parties – known as FRELIMO and RENAMO –<br /> to negotiate their way toward a peace agreement. (An agreement<br /> was signed in 1992.)</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder alfiado zunguza http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449741/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449741/" title="Moe Tun"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4106/5181449741_c4767327b5_m.jpg" width="174" height="240" alt="Moe Tun" /></a></p> <p>Moe Kyaw Tun '95 MA '97</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:42 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:42-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449741 Moe Tun <p>Moe Kyaw Tun '95 MA '97</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education moe emu tun kyaw peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049804/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049804/" title="Tim Ruebke"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4129/5182049804_1013363f87_m.jpg" width="240" height="153" alt="Tim Ruebke" /></a></p> <p>Tim Ruebke '93, MA ' 99<br /> Tim Ruebke is a state-certified mediator for civil and family circuit court cases<br /> and has taught alternative dispute resolution in community<br /> workshops and college classes.<br /> As an undergraduate majoring in social work at EMU. For his social work practicum,<br /> he went to the mediation center in the fall of 1992. Two<br /> months later he was employed as a case manager and mediator.<br /> He spent the next 15 years handling 1,500 cases involving<br /> issues as “minor” as marital conflict and as major as criminal<br /> cases and complex organizational or multi-party issues. Since 2007 Tim has been the executive director of the Fairfield Center, a role which requires him to spend more time<br /> “managing the business” – producing grant applications and<br /> reports, supervising personnel, working with his board – than<br /> actually mediating or facilitating, as he did in his earlier years.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:41 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:41-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049804 Tim Ruebke <p>Tim Ruebke '93, MA ' 99<br /> Tim Ruebke is a state-certified mediator for civil and family circuit court cases<br /> and has taught alternative dispute resolution in community<br /> workshops and college classes.<br /> As an undergraduate majoring in social work at EMU. For his social work practicum,<br /> he went to the mediation center in the fall of 1992. Two<br /> months later he was employed as a case manager and mediator.<br /> He spent the next 15 years handling 1,500 cases involving<br /> issues as “minor” as marital conflict and as major as criminal<br /> cases and complex organizational or multi-party issues. Since 2007 Tim has been the executive director of the Fairfield Center, a role which requires him to spend more time<br /> “managing the business” – producing grant applications and<br /> reports, supervising personnel, working with his board – than<br /> actually mediating or facilitating, as he did in his earlier years.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine tim education emu peacebuilding cjp ruebke peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449707/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449707/" title="David Schwinghamer performing a refugee baptism"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1372/5181449707_f7132aa831_m.jpg" width="240" height="167" alt="David Schwinghamer performing a refugee baptism" /></a></p> <p>David Schwinghamer performing a refugee baptism</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:41 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:41-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449707 David Schwinghamer performing a refugee baptism <p>David Schwinghamer performing a refugee baptism</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education refugee baptism emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049772/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049772/" title="Barb Toews"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4130/5182049772_5b59dc9537_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Barb Toews" /></a></p> <p>Barb Toews MA'00<br /> Barb is a doctoral student at Bryn Mawr College in a<br /> suburb of Philadelphia, where she is looking at the ways<br /> that people find privacy when institutionalized and the<br /> benefits of such privacy. As she puts it, she is focused on<br /> the need for “therapeutic space away from the chaos.”<br /> Previously she was the restorative justice program manager<br /> for the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the founding<br /> director of the victim-offender reconciliation program in<br /> her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:40 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:40-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049772 Barb Toews <p>Barb Toews MA'00<br /> Barb is a doctoral student at Bryn Mawr College in a<br /> suburb of Philadelphia, where she is looking at the ways<br /> that people find privacy when institutionalized and the<br /> benefits of such privacy. As she puts it, she is focused on<br /> the need for “therapeutic space away from the chaos.”<br /> Previously she was the restorative justice program manager<br /> for the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the founding<br /> director of the victim-offender reconciliation program in<br /> her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu barb peacebuilding cjp toews peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449637/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449637/" title="Emily Stanton"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4129/5181449637_c6db654aa7_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="Emily Stanton" /></a></p> <p>Emily Stanton MA '00<br /> Emily Stanton met Hedley Abernathy – the man who became her <br /> husband and then a fellow graduate of CJP – while both were trying to help<br /> young people in Northern Ireland to embrace alternatives to violence<br /> Emily, an American, was the first of the two<br /> to plunge into peacebuilding. In 1994-95, she lived as a<br /> volunteer at the Corrymeela Community, a peace and<br /> reconciliation center in a rural area of Northern Ireland.<br /> Upon completing her MA at EMU in 2000, Emily<br /> headed back to Northern Ireland as a Mennonite Board<br /> of Missions volunteer. She developed a pilot program to<br /> introduce conflict transformation training and restorative<br /> justice practices into a half-dozen schools in North Belfast.<br /> That’s when she met Hedley, who was a youth worker in<br /> North Belfast. In 2008, the couple and their two young sons re-settled<br /> in Northern Ireland, where Hedley took a job with<br /> WAVE Trauma Centre, an organization that supports people<br /> bereaved or traumatized by violence. WAVE has close<br /> ties to CJP; several dozen WAVE personnel have attended<br /> EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute since 1996.<br /> Emily does periodic work in the conflict transformation<br /> field, such as co-facilitating a Youth STAR (Strategies for<br /> Trauma Awareness and Resilience) at WAVE.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:39 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:39-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449637 Emily Stanton <p>Emily Stanton MA '00<br /> Emily Stanton met Hedley Abernathy – the man who became her <br /> husband and then a fellow graduate of CJP – while both were trying to help<br /> young people in Northern Ireland to embrace alternatives to violence<br /> Emily, an American, was the first of the two<br /> to plunge into peacebuilding. In 1994-95, she lived as a<br /> volunteer at the Corrymeela Community, a peace and<br /> reconciliation center in a rural area of Northern Ireland.<br /> Upon completing her MA at EMU in 2000, Emily<br /> headed back to Northern Ireland as a Mennonite Board<br /> of Missions volunteer. She developed a pilot program to<br /> introduce conflict transformation training and restorative<br /> justice practices into a half-dozen schools in North Belfast.<br /> That’s when she met Hedley, who was a youth worker in<br /> North Belfast. In 2008, the couple and their two young sons re-settled<br /> in Northern Ireland, where Hedley took a job with<br /> WAVE Trauma Centre, an organization that supports people<br /> bereaved or traumatized by violence. WAVE has close<br /> ties to CJP; several dozen WAVE personnel have attended<br /> EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute since 1996.<br /> Emily does periodic work in the conflict transformation<br /> field, such as co-facilitating a Youth STAR (Strategies for<br /> Trauma Awareness and Resilience) at WAVE.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449601/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449601/" title="CJP professor Barry Hart with Tim Ruebke"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1292/5181449601_80f6d1eab8_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="CJP professor Barry Hart with Tim Ruebke" /></a></p> <p>CJP professor Barry Hart with Tim Ruebke</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:39 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:39-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449601 CJP professor Barry Hart with Tim Ruebke <p>CJP professor Barry Hart with Tim Ruebke</p> PeacebuilderMagazine tim education barry emu hart peacebuilding cjp ruebke peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449571/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449571/" title="Randy and Amela Puljek"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1387/5181449571_53c582ff99_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Randy and Amela Puljek" /></a></p> <p>Based in Amela’s home country of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Randy<br /> and Amela Puljek-Shank have spent the last eight years devoted to healing<br /> the harms caused by the horrific warfare that occurred in the early<br /> 1990s across what was formerly Yugoslavia, and to preventing such horrors from happening again. Randy and Amela successfully collaborated with the<br /> leaders of three other local organizations to start the Peace<br /> Academy in Sarajevo three years ago. Modeled on EMU’s<br /> Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the academy offers three<br /> classes simultaneously for seven days once a year. With 60<br /> participants in the summer of 2010, it reached capacity.<br /> Partnering with the Franciscans, Randy and Amela<br /> have established a trauma center in Sarajevo to address<br /> the psychological wounds of war, using materials from<br /> STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience).<br /> They have lent MCC’s support to summertime youth<br /> camps that teach peace. They have stepped over religious<br /> fences to work with Bosnian-Muslim instructors to<br /> explore the peace aspects of Islam. They have reached out<br /> to war veterans from all sides.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:38 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:38-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449571 Randy and Amela Puljek <p>Based in Amela’s home country of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Randy<br /> and Amela Puljek-Shank have spent the last eight years devoted to healing<br /> the harms caused by the horrific warfare that occurred in the early<br /> 1990s across what was formerly Yugoslavia, and to preventing such horrors from happening again. Randy and Amela successfully collaborated with the<br /> leaders of three other local organizations to start the Peace<br /> Academy in Sarajevo three years ago. Modeled on EMU’s<br /> Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the academy offers three<br /> classes simultaneously for seven days once a year. With 60<br /> participants in the summer of 2010, it reached capacity.<br /> Partnering with the Franciscans, Randy and Amela<br /> have established a trauma center in Sarajevo to address<br /> the psychological wounds of war, using materials from<br /> STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience).<br /> They have lent MCC’s support to summertime youth<br /> camps that teach peace. They have stepped over religious<br /> fences to work with Bosnian-Muslim instructors to<br /> explore the peace aspects of Islam. They have reached out<br /> to war veterans from all sides.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education randy emu amela peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder puljek http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049670/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049670/" title="Randy Puljek-Shank with Krista Rigalo at graduation time"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1267/5182049670_9afed83e56_m.jpg" width="240" height="163" alt="Randy Puljek-Shank with Krista Rigalo at graduation time" /></a></p> <p>Randy Puljek-Shank with Krista Rigalo at graduation time</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:37 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:37-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049670 Randy Puljek-Shank with Krista Rigalo at graduation time <p>Randy Puljek-Shank with Krista Rigalo at graduation time</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education graduation randy emu krista peacebuilding cjp rigalo peacebuilder puljekshank http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049648/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049648/" title="Krista Rigalo"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1405/5182049648_c247e6aff0_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Krista Rigalo" /></a></p> <p>Krista Rigalo, MA ’00<br /> In the mid-1990s, as a Mennonite Central Committee<br /> (MCC) volunteer, she shifted her attention to the ravages of<br /> war while co-directing MCC's program for Rwandan refugees<br /> in the eastern Congo.<br /> As an MA student in conflict transformation from 1998 to<br /> 2000, Krista spent a semester at the Carter Center in Atlanta,<br /> where she focused on how conflict between Uganda and Sudan<br /> might be eased.<br /> Upon graduation from EMU in 2000, she returned to Africa<br /> on behalf of MCC to work at the Africa Peacebuilding Institute<br /> at the Mindolo Ecumenical Center in Zambia, where she<br /> taught courses in trauma healing and in peacebuilding. She also<br /> worked for MCC in Angola.<br /> She returned to the United States in 2003 and entered the<br /> doctoral program in conflict analysis and resolution at George<br /> Mason University, always maintaining her focus on Africa.<br /> In her current Peace Corps role as acting chief of programming<br /> and training for Africa, Krista spends considerable time<br /> coordinating with other offices to ensure that the Corps’ 27<br /> country programs in Africa receive the desired number of volunteers,<br /> with the requisite skills. Krista often arranges special<br /> trainings to see that people in the Corps are well-suited to their<br /> work assignments. She is in charge of overseeing the training of<br /> both the volunteers and the staff involved with Africa.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:37 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:37-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049648 Krista Rigalo <p>Krista Rigalo, MA ’00<br /> In the mid-1990s, as a Mennonite Central Committee<br /> (MCC) volunteer, she shifted her attention to the ravages of<br /> war while co-directing MCC's program for Rwandan refugees<br /> in the eastern Congo.<br /> As an MA student in conflict transformation from 1998 to<br /> 2000, Krista spent a semester at the Carter Center in Atlanta,<br /> where she focused on how conflict between Uganda and Sudan<br /> might be eased.<br /> Upon graduation from EMU in 2000, she returned to Africa<br /> on behalf of MCC to work at the Africa Peacebuilding Institute<br /> at the Mindolo Ecumenical Center in Zambia, where she<br /> taught courses in trauma healing and in peacebuilding. She also<br /> worked for MCC in Angola.<br /> She returned to the United States in 2003 and entered the<br /> doctoral program in conflict analysis and resolution at George<br /> Mason University, always maintaining her focus on Africa.<br /> In her current Peace Corps role as acting chief of programming<br /> and training for Africa, Krista spends considerable time<br /> coordinating with other offices to ensure that the Corps’ 27<br /> country programs in Africa receive the desired number of volunteers,<br /> with the requisite skills. Krista often arranges special<br /> trainings to see that people in the Corps are well-suited to their<br /> work assignments. She is in charge of overseeing the training of<br /> both the volunteers and the staff involved with Africa.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049632/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5182049632/" title="Christine Poulson"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1003/5182049632_3f3497e830_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Christine Poulson" /></a></p> <p>Christine Poulson, MA ’98<br /> Two years after the birth of her son, Benjamin, Christine Poulson made a difficult decision.<br /> After six years in a job she loved, she decided she would cease being executive director of the<br /> Conflict Resolution Center in Roanoke, Virginia, to be a fulltime caregiver to her son.<br /> While pregnant with her second child, Christine played a key volunteer role in a campaign to use the purchase of state-issued car license plates marked by a “peace dove”<br /> to raise money for the Virginia Association for Community Resolution, a network of non-profit community mediation centers. That effort has yielded $36,000 over a two-year period. Christine now works from her home as the part-time coordinator of that association.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:36 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:36-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5182049632 Christine Poulson <p>Christine Poulson, MA ’98<br /> Two years after the birth of her son, Benjamin, Christine Poulson made a difficult decision.<br /> After six years in a job she loved, she decided she would cease being executive director of the<br /> Conflict Resolution Center in Roanoke, Virginia, to be a fulltime caregiver to her son.<br /> While pregnant with her second child, Christine played a key volunteer role in a campaign to use the purchase of state-issued car license plates marked by a “peace dove”<br /> to raise money for the Virginia Association for Community Resolution, a network of non-profit community mediation centers. That effort has yielded $36,000 over a two-year period. Christine now works from her home as the part-time coordinator of that association.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education christine emu poulson peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449467/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449467/" title="Gilberto Pérez Jr."><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1283/5181449467_32432b413a_m.jpg" width="237" height="240" alt="Gilberto Pérez Jr." /></a></p> <p>Gilberto Pérez Jr. ’94, Grad. Cert. ’99<br /> As the founding director of Bienvenido, a program<br /> for newly arrived Latino immigrants, Gilberto Pérez Jr. tries <br /> to offer resources for health and hope, as well as education <br /> and livelihoods, for Latinos in Indiana’s schools,<br /> churches, juvenile correctional facilities, and communities.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:36 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:36-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449467 Gilberto Pérez Jr. <p>Gilberto Pérez Jr. ’94, Grad. Cert. ’99<br /> As the founding director of Bienvenido, a program<br /> for newly arrived Latino immigrants, Gilberto Pérez Jr. tries <br /> to offer resources for health and hope, as well as education <br /> and livelihoods, for Latinos in Indiana’s schools,<br /> churches, juvenile correctional facilities, and communities.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine education emu peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449453/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peacebuilder_magazine/">PeacebuilderMagazine</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacebuilder_magazine/5181449453/" title="Gilberto Pérez Jr. with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar."><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1299/5181449453_3d96736553_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Gilberto Pérez Jr. with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar." /></a></p> <p>Gilberto Pérez Jr. with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:28:35 -0800 2010-11-16T10:28:35-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (PeacebuilderMagazine) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5181449453 Gilberto Pérez Jr. with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar. <p>Gilberto Pérez Jr. with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar.</p> PeacebuilderMagazine us education senator dick jr emu lugar gilberto pérez peacebuilding cjp peacebuilder