When volunteers were solicited, nobody immediately stepped forward. It was a tough request: tell a painful personal story before an audience of maybe 40, many of them strangers to each ... read more about Volunteers discover power of playback theater to shift painful stories toward path of healing
What started in the mid-1990s as a series of lunches where those working in the peacebuilding field could exchange ideas on theories and practice has grown into a world-renowned institute ... read more about The Summer Peacebuilding Institute draws widely diverse people to “sit and talk outside of the conflict zone”
Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) emerged from the ashes of Sept. 11, when hundreds of millions of people were grieving over the deaths and destruction caused by hijacked ... read more about STAR breaks cycles of trauma
糖心Vlog鈥檚 cross-cultural program is intentionally different from that of almost every college in America, says Vernon Jantzi 鈥�64, who became a faculty member at 糖心Vlog after earning his PhD in ... read more about A highlight on Vernon Jantzi
Veterans Day 2013 was remembered at 糖心Vlog with 242 dog tags hung from a tree along a well-traveled footpath near the center of campus. Two graduate students, Michael ... read more about Veterans鈥� suicides remembered by 糖心Vlog students, faculty and staff
After he got back from the war,聽Mark Lauro couldn鈥檛 pick up his young son without thinking about that night in Iraq. He was an Army National Guard sergeant with a ... read more about Resiliency After Trauma of War
Bekah Enns鈥� great-grandparents would not recognize the way she is pursuing an academic degree in 2013. For one thing, the senior history major at 糖心Vlog spent last semester ... read more about Students Earn Credits Off Campus, Learning in New Ways and New Places
Gather at the Table, a book about two individuals exploring their vastly different histories 鈥� one being an African-American woman descended from slavery and the other a European-American man descended ... read more about Gather at the Table, a Book on Race Relations, Takes Off Nationwide
A graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at 糖心Vlog (糖心Vlog), as well as the center鈥檚 Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program, is playing a ... read more about Ripple Effect: Grad Leads STAR Trainings in Somalia for USAID
With a history of violence linked to colonization, intense poverty and vulnerable geographic location, Haiti has long suffered from natural disasters, social conflict, and other traumatic events. That is one ... read more about Haitians Embrace Trauma-Resilience Program