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Open courses
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Course enrollment sometimes change on a daily basis due to additions from new applicants or people unable to find funding or receive a visa to attend. The following courses still have open space as of April 15, 2015.
Click on the title of a course below for more information.
Session 1 (May 4-12, 2015)
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Faith-Based Peacebuilding: Identify and discuss sources of conflict and resources for peacebuilding within and between religions. Develop capacity for interfaith engagement.
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Building Civil Society Movements: Use negotiation, mediation, and dialogue to structure decision-making and strategic planning processes to build successful social change coalitions.
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Restorative Justice: Explore an alternative to the criminal justice system’s focus on punishment. Identify needs and roles of key stakeholders in crimes or violence.
Session 2 (may 14 – 22, 2015)
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Safe Communities, Safe Homes: Explore connections between family, gender, and community violence. Discuss the effect violence in one area of our life has on other areas.
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Developing Restorative Organizations: Reduce conflict in the workplace and increase the satisfaction of your employees, customers, and clients. (ALMOST FULL)
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Changing Society through Media: Discover the power of documentary to promote peace, transform relationships, and build community. Create transformative storytelling in multiple digital forms. No previous digital media experience necessary. This is a two-session course in sessions 2 and 3. Participants must take both sessions. Additional course fees apply.
Session 3 (May 25 – June 2, 2015)
Session 4 (June 4 – 12, 2015)
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Rehearsal for Reality: Investigate theater’s connection with community activism and civil discourse. Develop embodied performance skills and tools to engage individuals/communities.
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Justice in Transition: Explore how transitional justice addresses the legacies of human rights abuses. Review social justice in local, national international, and indigenous structures.
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Strategies for Trauma-Informed Organizations: Discuss why organizations need to be trauma sensitive. Develop client care, worker care, and organizational effectiveness policies.
Please note that we keep a waiting list for all full courses. It is possible that space will become available if someone has to drop out of a course. For a list of all courses being taught at SPI 2015, click here.
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Frontier Luncheon Speakers
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Each session we gather together as a group for a lunch where we hear from a speaker on the frontiers of the field of peacebuilding. These lunches are included as part of the course fee for SPI participants and are open to all community members for a small fee. If you would like to come to a lunch and are not taking a course that session, send en e-mail to spi@emu.edu for more information and to register.
This year our speakers will include the following individuals:
Palwasha Kakar (Session 1, May 6): Senior program officer for Religion and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Palwasha Kakar. Previously has worked with the Asia Foundation, UNDP's Afghanistan Subnational Governance Program, and at Kabul University on civil society initiatives, gender, social justice, and environmental issues. She has an MA from Harvard University's Divinity School and a BA from Bethel College in Newton, Kansas.
Fania Davis
(Session 2, May 20): Co-founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Fania Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama during the US civil rights era. She has been active in civil rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, anti-racial violence and anti-apartheid movements. She has a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies and is a civil rights attorney. Click
here to read her recent article on the need for a countrywide truth and reconciliation process in the US.
Jason Brown (Session 3, May 27): "When I think about a life of greatness, I think about a life of service". A former pro-football player in the early years of his career, Jason Brown walked away from a lucrative football contract to pursue a calling to farm and reduce poverty in his home town of Louisburg, North Carolina. Click here
to watch a short video where he explains why he left football to feed the hungry. Click here to visit his farm's website.
Kamal Uddin Tipu
(Session 4, June 9): Currently an executive member of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Kamal Uddin Tipu has worked as a police planning adviser with the UN Office to the African Union in Ethiopia, and as a deputy inspector general of the Islamabad Police in Pakistan. Kamal Uddin Tipu is a 2004 Fulbright-sponsored master's graduate of the
Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University and is currently working on a PhD in International Relations and Politics.
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About the Summer Peacebuilding Institute
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The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) provides broad-based and specialized trainings that empower participants to contextualize the knowledge to their own situations. Learn more about yourself, others, and the world around you through courses, conversations, laughter, hiking, volleyball, group meals, and other activities.
SPI offers four 7-day sessions, each with several courses running at the same time. Participants can take one course per session. Courses can be taken for professional skills training or master’s level academic credit.
Courses are open to people interested in integrating conflict transformation, peacebuilding, restorative justice, trauma awareness, and related fields into their own work and life.
For more information
• Visit www.emu.edu/spi
See full course descriptions and instructor bios
Apply online
• Call 540-432-4672
• Email: spi@emu.edu
• Twitter: #CJPSPI
• Visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/summer.peacebuilding.institute
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