{"id":7427,"date":"2016-10-05T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:58:23","slug":"defense-victim-outreach-pioneer-tammy-krause-earns-cjp-alumni-award-for-outstanding-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2016\/10\/defense-victim-outreach-pioneer-tammy-krause-earns-cjp-alumni-award-for-outstanding-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense-Victim Outreach Pioneer Tammy Krause Earns CJP Alumni Award for Outstanding Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tammy Krause, MA \u201899, accepted the 2016 Alumni Award for Outstanding Service during a SPI luncheon in summer 2016. (Photo by Andrew Strack)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tammy Krause<\/a>, MA \u201899<\/strong>, was selected for CJP\u2019s 2016 Alumni Award\u00a0for Outstanding Service. Krause, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, has\u00a0worked on federal capital cases throughout the United States for the\u00a0past 19 years. Her involvement in the legal profession began as a\u00a0graduate student at CJP, when she joined Professor Howard Zehr at\u00a0the invitation of capital defense attorneys to work with victims of the\u00a0Oklahoma City bombings.<\/p>\n

Since then, she has pioneered defense-victim outreach, known as\u00a0DVO, in which an independent intermediary seeks to build professional\u00a0relationships between the defense attorneys and the victim\u2019s\u00a0family in an effort to ensure that victim concerns are addressed. Her\u00a0work with the Department of Justice has included several high-profile\u00a0cases, including the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui.<\/p>\n

\u201cTammy is among those graduates who have taken restorative\u00a0justice into areas well beyond anything I had imagined,\u201d said Zehr,\u00a0who has been both a mentor and colleague. \u201cIn creating and practicing\u00a0this work, she drew heavily upon and integrated what she had\u00a0learned about restorative justice and peacebuilding at CJP. In my\u00a0estimation, she represents much of what we hope from our graduates.\u00a0As a pioneer and leader in a new field of justice and peacebuilding,\u00a0she is very deserving of this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annual award is given to CJP alumni who have demonstrated\u00a0exceptional commitment to CJP\u2019s mission of supporting conflict\u00a0transformation, restorative justice, trauma healing, development,\u00a0organizational leadership and peacebuilding efforts at all levels of\u00a0society. The first award was conferred in 2015 to Ali Gohar, MA \u201902,\u00a0founder and executive director of Just Peace Initiatives in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The catalyst for Krause\u2019s involvement \u2013 indeed for the creation\u00a0of her profession \u2013 was a phone call to Zehr from attorney Dick\u00a0Burr, then a lead attorney on the defense team of Timothy McVeigh.\u00a0McVeigh was accused (and later convicted and executed) of planning\u00a0the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, in which 168 people were\u00a0killed and hundreds injured. Burr reached out to Zehr, an expert in\u00a0restorative practices, to explore some way of interacting with victims.\u00a0Krause\u2019s first experience as liaison became her practicum.<\/p>\n

Over the next several years, with the help of Zehr, the CJP community\u00a0and Dick Burr, Krause developed a model and best practices.\u00a0A Soros Justice Fellowship and an Ashoka Fellowship helped her\u00a0promote the model within the judicial system and build a network of\u00a0trained liaisons. From 2003 to 2007, she worked as a victim outreach\u00a0coordinator for the federal public defenders.<\/p>\n

Krause now holds a PhD in law from the University of Manchester\u00a0and has continued her work with the federal government in victim\u00a0outreach. She interacts with people who have lost loved ones and\u00a0who are struggling to understand not only what happened but why\u00a0it happened and the motivations of the person or people who made\u00a0it happen. She also helps victims and survivors understand the process\u00a0of law, which can seem arbitrary, unintelligible and unfair.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s deeply appreciative of the award, she said, and humbled\u00a0by the honor from a place that remains a source of sustenance and\u00a0strength. \u201cCJP\u2019s teaching of the reflective practitioner has given me\u00a0a place to come to where people are asking those same questions:\u00a0am I doing this right? There\u2019s a bond created in that integrity, in that\u00a0honesty of trying to figure that out. I\u2019ll be forever grateful for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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