Eastern Mennonite University, The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding

The Mission, Vision, and Values of CJP

Mission Statement:

CJP educates a global community of peacebuilders through the integration of practice, theory, and research.

Vision Statement:

Preparing, transforming, and sustaining leaders to create a just and peaceful world.

Values:

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding is a program of EMU, an institution grounded in Anabaptist theology, life, and values.

CJP strives to practice and model holistic and values-based peacebuilding. Our values are visible in our processes and actions as we:

• embrace nonviolence, right relationships, and just community in our lives and practice
• honor human dignity, diversity, interdependence, and equality
• foster respect, trust, and collaboration across faith traditions, cultures, and worldviews
• ensure accountability, participation, and transparency
• challenge ourselves and others to continual learning and growth
• support the resilience and the sustainability of CJP/EMU and partner organizations by emphasizing personal, relational, spiritual, environmental, and financial well-being
• offer hospitality, develop relationships, and build inclusive community with both individuals and institutions
• focus on positive long-term and deep-rooted change that links personal and social transformation
• recognize and draw on the capacity for peace in faith-based, spiritual, and secular philosophies
• work to dismantle systems of oppression, including using our resources to pro-actively counter the drive towards economies of extraction of wealth (in all its forms) from communities
• cultivate leadership at all levels and in all positions and promote a model of shared leadership when working with communities