The Summer Peacebuilding Institute, a program of EMU in Harrisonburg, Virginia, offers short-term, training courses on a variety of topics including trauma awareness, restorative justice, leadership, community organizing, racial healing, and many more.
The Institute holds four sessions of courses, with four possible courses in each session. Trainings can be taken for skills enhancement or academic credit and run from May 13 to June 14, 2019. There is still room available in almost all courses.
For more information, click here.
To apply to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, click here.
The following is a list of courses available this year. Click the course title for more information.
Session 1: May 13 - 21, 2019
- Analysis: Understanding Conflict
- Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level II
- Circle Processes
- Transformational Leadership for Organizational Change
Session 2: May 23 - May 31, 2019
- Formation for Peacebuilding Practice
- Restorative Justice: Principles, Theories & Applications
- Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Trustbuilding: Towards Relational Justice and Sustainable Change
Session 3: June 3 - 7, 2019
- Truth-telling, Racial Healing & Restorative Justice
- Community Organizing for Social Change
- Designing Facilitated Processes that Work
- Peacebuilding Approaches to Violent Extremism
Session 4: June 10 - 14, 2019
- Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level I
- Playback Theater: Honoring Stories and Healing Wounds
- Singing to the Lions: Helping Children Respond Effectively to Violence and Abuse (three day course ending June 12, 2019)
- Building Resilience and Challenging Systemic Racism (three day course ending June 12, 2019)
For more information, send an email to spi@emu.edu.
We hope to see you at the 2019 Summer Peacebuilding Institute!
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