{"id":45950,"date":"2020-05-21T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45950"},"modified":"2020-05-25T21:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T01:20:01","slug":"peacebuilder-podcast-journalist-of-justice-with-howard-zehr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-journalist-of-justice-with-howard-zehr\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilder Podcast: &#8220;Journalist of Justice&#8221; with Howard Zehr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-3711677\"><\/div>\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/726384\/3711677-journalist-of-justice.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-3711677&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Howard Zehr<\/strong> \u2013 director emeritus of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice and a distinguished professor of restorative justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) \u2013 is the ninth guest of the Peacebuilder podcast. In the episode, Zehr talks about his path to victim-offender conferencing as a young practitioner, the early days of restorative justice, and where he sees the field going from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The podcast is just one of the ways the center is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. Hosted by CJP executive assistant and anniversary celebration committee chair <strong>Patience Kamau MA \u201817,<\/strong> the 10-episode series features faculty and staff members reflecting on the history of CJP and their own peacebuilding work. A new episode drops every other week on the Peacebuilder website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Zehr\u2019s formative experiences as a young adult was attending Morehouse College, a historically black men\u2019s college in Atlanta. He was confronted with being part of a \u201cminority\u201d as one of the few white students in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople just didn\u2019t read me the way I was used to being read. My body language, what I said was interpreted totally different[ly],\u201d Zehr recalls. \u201cIt was a profound experience and not an easy one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in the 1970s, while teaching at another historically black institution, Talladega College in Alabama, when Zehr started working with the criminal justice system. He provided support to prisoners and trained student research teams \u201cto help defense attorneys pick juries in really highly politicized cases: death penalty, prison riots, police brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1985, Zehr published the booklet <em>Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice,<\/em> followed by <em>Changing Lenses<\/em> in 1990, a seminal work in Zehr\u2019s own career and the field at large. He joined CJP in 1996, at the urging of Professor Ray Gingerich and Director Vernon Jantzi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy self concept is basically a journalist of justice,\u201d Zehr says \u2013 communication and networking are foundational to his work. The whole reason he launched the Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding series was to make the core concepts of CJP accessible to a wider audience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zehr pitched the first title, <em>The Little Book of Restorative Justice,<\/em> to his publisher saying, \u201cI want it to cost about the same as a Big Mac dinner.\u201d Over 100,000 copies of the book have now been sold in a variety of languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does he celebrate most about CJP? \u201cWe\u2019re still, as far as I know, the only academic program with a practice, a reflective practitioner value-based kind of approach. 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