Latest Cjp Podcast Episodes

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael "MJ" Sharp

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - February 15, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes
In this special crossover episode with our friends at Ing Podcast by MennoMedia, we have a conversation with Marshall V. King, the author of Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael "MJ" Sharp.  The book tells the story of Michael “MJ” Sharp ‘05, whose commitment to peace and peacebuil...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

The Neutrality Trap

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - February 01, 2022 14:00 - 51 minutes
Dr. Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, the inaugural executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Eastern Mennonite University, is the featured guest. Font-Guzmán, a native of Puerto Rico, talks about her journey into conflict resolution and to the position at EMU from the fields of law and...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

We are a Storytelling Species

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - June 01, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes
In this episode Lindsay Martin interviews host patience kamau in an effort to understand the behind the scenes development of this podcast, the motivations for its creation and the preparation that lovingly goes into each episode.  Lindsay Martin is associate director of Development for CJP.  ...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Music and Peacebuilding

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - May 18, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Bergey speaks about peacebuilding through music, and how working with intercultural youth ensembles inspired him to enter the field. Bergey teaches music theory and conducting at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). The university recently announced a new concentrat...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

The POWER of Dreaming: Re-Imagining Our Imaginations

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - May 04, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes
Talibah Aquil MA '19 (conflict transformation) talks about her first journey to her ancestral home, Ghana; the captivating performance art capstone that was borne of that experience; and her calling as a bridge between the North American and African continents.  Aquil first decided to travel to...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Trauma-Informed Care and Pedagogy

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - April 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour
In this conversation, Matt Tibbles shares moving personal stories that actualize both his learning journey and the important peacebuilding ideas he studies, practices and teaches – drawing from experiences as a youth pastor and a juvenile detention officer, in education and prevention for a dome...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Identity and Sexual Harms

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - April 05, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour
Dr. Carolyn Stauffer, featured in this episode, speaks about about her work in the fields of sexual harm and trauma.  Before returning to EMU --her alma mater-- as a professor, she lived in South Africa for 16 years. While there, she recounts working at a rape crisis center in the mid-1990s, whe...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Showing Up in Whole and Healthy Ways

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - March 23, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes
Dr. Tim Seidel has played an integral role in the fields of strategic peacebuilding, global studies and interfaith engagement at Eastern Mennonite University. He brings practical experience in all three fields, having lived and worked in Palestine, Israel, and served as Mennonite Central Committ...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

That of God, Not of Ego

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - March 09, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Dr. Catherine Barnes talks about designing and facilitating deliberative dialogue processes, as well as current events including the military coup in Myanmar. Dr. Barnes has worked for conflict transformation and social change for more than 30 years in many countries. She has w...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Collective Trauma & Reconstructing the Social Fabric

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - February 22, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutes
The first episode features Dr. Vernon Jantzi, currently director of academic programs here at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) and a co-founder of the center more than 25 years ago. Janzti served as director and co-director from 1995-2002. Jantzi begins ...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

World Viewing

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour
The tenth and final installment of the Peacebuilder podcast’s first season features Dr. Jayne S. Docherty, executive director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Docherty speaks on her path to the field, the importance of considering worldview...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Journalist of Justice

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - May 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour
Dr. Howard Zehr is director emeritus of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice and a distinguished professor of restorative justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. In this ninth episode, he talks about his path to victim-offender conferencing as a young practitioner, the early d...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Re-friending My Body

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - April 27, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour
Katie Mansfield, lead trainer of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), speaks about her path to STAR from working in multinational banking during 9/11, polyvagal theory, and her dissertation work on embodied trauma he...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

There's a knock on the door...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - April 13, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour
This seventh episode features Bill Goldberg, director of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI). He speaks on the importance of grassroots and domestic peacebuilding, even in Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) own backyard and campus. Goldberg jokes that he “married in” to the Center for Ju...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Colorizing Restorative Justice

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - March 30, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour
Dr. Johonna Turner, is assistant professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP). In this episode, Turner speaks about her history of community organizing, activism, and youth development work in Washington, D.C.; the Faith Integration Task Fo...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

When the Center Does Not Hold

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - March 17, 2020 19:00 - 57 minutes
This fifth episode features Dr. David Brubaker, dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, which includes the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP). In it Brubaker talks about the environmental and generational changes that organizations now face,...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Nora Lynne

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - March 02, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour
Academic program coordinator, Janelle Myers-Benner, has worked at CJP in various capacities for 20 years. Myers-Benner speaks of her formative experiences volunteering in Bolivia; the many programmatic shifts she’s helped usher through CJP; and memories of her second daughter, Nora, who died in ...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Remembering without Revenge

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - February 17, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Dr. Carl Stauffer, professor of Restorative and Transitional Justice here at CJP, and an engaging storyteller, reflects on his childhood in Vietnam and the way that war shaped his outlook on life; his early adulthood with a young family in South Africa during a time when the nat...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Do No Harm

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - February 03, 2020 14:00 - 49 minutes
In this episode, Dr. Gloria Rhodes, professor of peacebuilding and conflict studies here at the Center for Justiceand Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), talks about the field of conflict resolution and transformation.  Rhodes begins the episode by looking back on her own...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Cycle of Dignity

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - January 21, 2020 19:00 - 45 minutes
In this episode, Dr. Barry Hart, professor of trauma, identity and conflict studies here at CJP, reflects on his own beginnings in the field of conflict transformation and trauma work, definitions of trauma and trauma healing, how CJP has evolved since its inception, and where he sees it – and t...

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP artwork

Peacebuilder Trailer

Peacebuilder: a Conflict Transformation podcast by CJP - December 03, 2019 19:00 - 4 minutes
A trailer to Peacebuilder, a podcast by the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), at Eastern Mennonite University, in Harrisonburg, Va.  We here at CJP are celebrating 25 years since our founding. We’ve been celebrating this milestone since July first 2019 and will carry on through the en...

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

Community Forum on Pew Study on Jewish Life [December 2013]

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - December 13, 2013 17:02 - 1 hour
Community Forum on Pew Study on Jewish Life December 2013 Featured Speakers: Leonard Saxe, Ph.D., Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy, Brandeis University Barry Shrage, President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies Rabbi Jay Perlman, Temple Beth Shalom Shir...

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

CJP's Jewish Learning Connections

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - March 22, 2013 16:05 - 1 minute - Video
CJP's Jewish Learning Connections is re-imagining Jewish education and helping synagogue communities bring learning to life for kids.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

Parents at the Center

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - March 22, 2013 15:53 - 1 minute - Video
An inside look at how CJP is empowering at-risk Israeli families through Parents at the Center, an innovative program that takes a prevention-based approach.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

Transitions to Work

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - March 22, 2013 15:46 - 2 minutes - Video
CJP is collaborating with the Ruderman Family Foundation, Jewish Vocational Service and local employers to create Transitions to Work, a new pathway to employment for people with disabilities.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

Thank you for supporting CJP

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - January 15, 2013 20:15 - 1 minute - Video
Ever wonder if your gift to CJP makes a difference? The answer is YES. Meet some of the people whose lives have changed thanks to your support.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

ReachOut! JCRC's Volunteer Service Program

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - January 15, 2013 20:13 - 1 minute - Video
ReachOut!, JCRC's new volunteer service program for young adults.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

Your CJP gift at work: Meet a grateful family

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - January 15, 2013 20:01 - 2 minutes - Video
Meet Jill and her family, and find out how Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston helped them through some difficult times.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

DHI Washington Square

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - January 15, 2013 19:59 - 3 minutes - Video
On April 1, CJP's Next Generation Housing Foundation, Inc. opened four new apartments for people with disabilities. Take a quick video tour and find out what makes these affordable units so special.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies artwork

JVS Impact

Combined Jewish Philanthropies - January 15, 2013 19:51 - 2 minutes - Video
Videos from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Footage from Boston, Israel, and around the world, featuring our volunteers and highlighting our priorities.

Related Cjp Topics