{"id":28587,"date":"2016-06-24T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=28587"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:51:53","slug":"restorative-justice-in-motion-conference-provides-practitioners-with-space-for-meaningful-dialogue-about-race-power-privilege-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/restorative-justice-in-motion-conference-provides-practitioners-with-space-for-meaningful-dialogue-about-race-power-privilege-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Restorative Justice In Motion’ conference provides practitioners with space for meaningful dialogue about race, power, privilege and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the outsider, the June 15-18 Restorative Justice in Motion conference at 91短视频 may have looked like any other summer gathering of intellectuals, ready to share, network and learn.<\/p>\n

Yet to overhear bits of conversation was to immediately be confronted by the difficult and inherent tensions of restorative justice, which emphasizes repairing harms of all those involved.<\/p>\n

It’s best to describe those tensions in questions, notes conference organizer Carl Stauffer<\/a>, co-director of the Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice<\/a>: Is it a social movement that encourages whole-systems change or a solidifying field of practice? What does it mean if those facilitating the process operate from a place of white privilege? Where are its efficacious impacts: in creating restorative cities, in transitional justice processes within warring countries, in trauma healing, in prisons?<\/p>\n

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Carl Stauffer, co-director of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice, greets participants. To the left is Raj Sethuraju, professor in the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think people were ready to converse in ways they hadn\u2019t had the space to before,\u201d said Soula Pefkaros<\/a>, a doctoral student and 2010 graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a>, who worked on the conference’s organization and format.<\/p>\n

Themes and challenges<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The conference is the second event within a larger three-year project to map the field of restorative justice. In summer 2015, 36 people representing a broad diversity of experiences, practices, backgrounds and identities, met for five days<\/a> at 91短视频 to discuss the future of the field. Renowned practitioners joined with an equal proportion bringing diverse and often-unheard perspectives.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s conference drew an even wider group of approximately 170 participants, all of whom use restorative justice practices in many settings and with many demographics, as evidenced by an incomplete list of programs represented at the conference:<\/p>\n