Last year in South Korea, middle school teachers Yongseung Roh and Kyungyun Hwang read Howard Zehr’s seminal text Changing Lenses with a study group. This year, they were part of
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From across Brazil and with diverse professional backgrounds, 25 restorative justice practitioners spent five days in October at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) — visiting area programs, contemplating practices and pedagogies,
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When Channah Fonseca-Quezada and David Quezada talk about their personal journeys that have merged and taken them from their native Chile to the United States and now to Canada, one
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Editor’s note: Nourah Alhasawi’s exhibit titled “The Oppression of (Not) Being Seen” can be viewed Jan. 19-Feb. 28, 2018, in the Prism Gallery, bottom floor of Festival Hall, at James
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The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice offers “Transforming Historical Harms,” a four-part webinar series in the fall of 2017. Using case histories from Virginia, the series will highlight narratives that
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Twenty years ago, Howard Zehr published "Doing Life," a book of photos and interviews of nearly 60 lifers in Pennsylvania prisons. He’s been revisiting about two dozen of those men and women in preparation for a follow-up, which he’s calling “Coping with Life.” ... read more about Twenty years later, photographer and author Howard Zehr revisits people serving life sentences from WMRA/NPR
In the late 1990s, a Brazilian judge named Isabel Lima traveled to a conference in New Zealand to talk about her work with juvenile offenders in Terra Nova, a poor
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When Gregory Winship begins teaching a new course of conflict transformation training at a minimum-security prison in Missouri, he waits until the second session to share his past. “The first
... read more about First master’s in restorative justice graduate builds on past to share his vision of justice
This course has been postponed until fall 2017. Please contact Patience Kamau, Zehr Institute program director, at patience.kamau@emu.edu for more information. The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice announces a six-session
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After serving two decades in prison for complicity to murder, Gregory Winship was granted parole in 2010. Just a few days ago, in Harrisonburg, he became the first to receive a master’s degree in restorative justice from Eastern Mennonite University. WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports. ... read more about NPR: Meet the first graduate of EMU’s MA in Restorative Justice program from WMRA/NPR