Dr. Howard Zehr is
Professor of Restorative
Justice at Eastern
Mennonite University's
graduate Center for
Justice and Peacebuilding and is
the editor of The Little Books of
Justice and Peacemaking series.
January 11th, 2010 – by Howard Zehr (category: Peacebuilding, Restorative Justice)
In my previous entry I noted that Philip Zimbardo, in his book The Lucifer Effect, suggests “A Ten-step Program to Resist Unwanted Influences.” Because this has generated interest I will list his 10 steps below. These are in the form of personal commitments. For his explanation of each see pp. 451-456. 1. “I made a [...]
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December 31st, 2009 – by Howard Zehr (category: Peacebuilding, Restorative Justice)
Philip Zimbardo’s 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, provides an in-depth description and evaluation of his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. To study the dynamics of prison, this famous experiment randomly assigned college student to be guards or inmates in a mock prison. Within a very short time the project had [...]
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