Howard Zehr I am with a group of men in prison. We are in a seminar I have been leading for some weeks. Most are many years into serving life sentences. One young man, however, expects to be released soon. W ...More
The subdued reaction of the Amish to the killing of five girls at the one-room school in Bart Township, Pa., reflects their theology, culture and history, says Earl Zimmerman, a religion professor at EMU, who attended grades 1 through 8 in a one-room Amish school about 30 miles north of the site of the killings. ...More
Howard Zehr, a professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University, is the 2006 recipient of the annual Community of Christ International Peace Award, one of the world ...More
While traveling to his next appointment on the Tokyo subway system, Howard Zehr (right) is interviewed by Yasukazu Akada, a reporter for A ...More
Howard Zehr displays the award received from the Restorative Justice Association of Virginia. Photo by Jim Bishop A coalition of organizations working in ...More
It’s an inside look at the effects of traumatic experiences through the eyes of crime victims and life-sentenced prisoners. “A Ladder Without Rungs,” an exhibit ...More
RESTORATIVE justice entails the need for victims and perpetrators to understand each other in order for them to be accepted in society, an expert says. Professor Howard Zehr said people needed to make the legal system work if they were to live a peaceful life. The co-director of the Conflict Transformation Programm at the Eastern Mennonite University in United States was speakin ...More
Howard Zehr, co-director of EMU’s Conflict Transformation Program and author of the book upon which the play, “A Body in Mo ...More
Allyson Holtz and Howard Zehr discuss one of Holtz’s mixed media portraits of inmates on exhibit during the Summer Peace ...More
The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, by Howard Zehr and Allan MacRae is scheduled to be released in November, 2004. ...More
