The Restorative Justice Movement: Fall 2012

Dear Supporter, The Peace Alliance and I are thrilled to announce the Fall kickoff of the Restorative Justice Telecouncil Series and the workings of a longer term resource area and collaborative network for those working in RJ and related fields and for those inspired by the growing movement who want to find out more. TPA recognizes that Restorative Justice is moving fast in the U.S. as an answer to punitive and corporate-motivated criminal justice systems. The Peace Alliance strives to support this systemic change on multiple levels by offering this free dialogue series and over-time by providing a central area for citizens to access resources, and to augment education, spark dialogue, connect organizations and individuals, and ultimately make the RJ movement stronger and more visible both in the US and beyond. We look forward to expanding this RJ track over the coming year and beyond.  Please contact me with any questions. Upcoming Guests: *Most councils will be held at regular Thursday 5pmPST, 8pm EST time slot excepting special councils such as Sept. 5th. Visit often for new listings and archives, as well as an RJ resource area. Sign up for each event separately. Wednesday, September 5th at 10:30amEST-- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow EVENT PAGE & SIGN UP HERE Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who currently holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.  Prior to joining the Kirwan Institute, Alexander was an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of her first book, The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010).  The book has received rave reviews and has been featured in national radio and television media outlets, including NPR, The Bill Moyers Journal, the Tavis Smiley Show, C-Span Washington Journal, among others.  In March, the book won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction. Thursday, September 6th at 5pmPST/8pmEST-- Michael Nagler of The Metta Center for Nonviolence EVENT PAGE & SIGN UP HERE Michael Nagler is one of the most respected scholars and advocates of Gandhi and nonviolence in the world today. He is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Founder and President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence (www.mettacenter.org); and author of, among other books and articles, Our Spiritual Crisis, and The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received a 2002 American Book Award and has been translated into Arabic, Italian, Korean, Croatian, and several other languages. Thursday, September 13th 5pmPST/8pmEST-- Prof. Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., University of Illinois EVENT PAGE & SIGN UP HERE Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where, among other courses, he teaches an undergraduate course called Psychology of Race and Ethnicityand a graduate-level restorative justice practicum based at a youth detention center. Since 2009, he has been a student and practitioner of Restorative Circles, a restorative practice developed in Brazil by Dominic Barter and associates. Wednesday, September 19th, 5pmPST/8pmEST-- Dr. Carl Stauffer, Eastern Mennonite University EVENT PAGE & SIGN UP HERE Dr. Carl Stauffer teaches Justice and Development Studies at the Graduate Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Stauffer’s academic interests focus on narrative studies, restorative/transitional justice, and post-war reconstruction and reconciliation. His research concentrates on the critique of transitional justice from a restorative frame, and the application of hybrid, often parallel indigenous community justice systems. We will continue to list guests on the site, keep checking back... Please join us! In Peace, Molly Rowan Leach Board Member, The Peace Alliance Educational Institute Donations to The Peace Alliance are tax deductible and help keep this series free of charge. .

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