{"id":53538,"date":"2022-12-14T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=53538"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:57:36","slug":"uchicago-magazine-howard-zehr-reflects-on-a-career-advocating-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/uchicago-magazine-howard-zehr-reflects-on-a-career-advocating-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Magazine: Howard Zehr reflects on a career advocating for change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want an update on EMU Professor Emeritus <strong>Howard Zehr<\/strong>? <em>UChicago Magazine<\/em> has published a profile <a href=\"https:\/\/mag.uchicago.edu\/law-policy-society\/rooted-justice\">&#8220;Rooted in Justice&#8221;<\/a> on Zehr, who earned his master&#8217;s in history there in 1976. The article traces Zehr&#8217;s career and corresponding interactions with and personal philosophy of restorative justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e0f1fb\"><em>Zehr has been called \u201cthe grandfather of restorative justice\u201d and is proud of the label, but quick to qualify it. The idea of accountability through conversation has deep roots: many Indigenous groups around the world have for centuries used community dialogue to resolve conflict. Zehr sees himself not as an inventor of restorative justice but rather as a communicator on its behalf.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/12\/07105441\/UChicagoMag-Fall22-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/12\/07105441\/UChicagoMag-Fall22-Cover.jpg 365w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/12\/07105441\/UChicagoMag-Fall22-Cover-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And there&#8217;s other interesting details about what Zehr is up to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d3eefe\"><em>Zehr has always loved photography and found ways to incorporate it into his work; his books&nbsp;<\/em>Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences<em>&nbsp;(Good Books, 1996) and&nbsp;<\/em>Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later&nbsp;<em>(The New Press, 2022) feature portraits of prisoners serving life sentences. Now he\u2019s begun doing volunteer work as a hospice photographer. He\u2019s still writing\u2014mostly technical articles for ham radio operators, a welcome return to his childhood hobby.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mag.uchicago.edu\/law-policy-society\/rooted-justice\">Read more.<\/a> <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want an update on EMU Professor Emeritus Howard Zehr? UChicago Magazine has published a profile &#8220;Rooted in Justice&#8221; on Zehr, who earned his master&#8217;s in history there in 1976. 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