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CERJ was asked to put together a lineup of Restorative Justice events at
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government this month.
Programs 1, 2, and 4 are a result of this specific CERJ effort. I hope you
can join us there. -- JW
P.S.: Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Director of Suffolk University's Center for
Restorative Justice, will follow-up with another presentation in this CERJ
series at a later date.
ROBERT AND RENÉE BELFER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
The Human Rights Initiative
presents
1. “FROM MICRO TO MACRO: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS A GLOBAL SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL MOVEMENT” -- John Wilmerding, General Secretary, Campaign for
Equity-Restorative Justice (CERJ) -- March 9, 1999
2. “NOT IN MY NAME: A HOMICIDE SURVIVOR SPEAKS OUT” -- RENNY CUSHING,
Executive Director, Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation -- March 16,
1999
3. “THE WEINBERGER-POWELL DOCTRINE AND THE SUPPRESSION OF GENOCIDE” -- Ken
Campbell, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International
Relations, University of Delaware -- March 24, 1999
4. “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS” -- Dan Van Ness, Vice President,
Prison Fellowship -- March 26, 1999
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1. “FROM MICRO TO MACRO: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS A GLOBAL SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL MOVEMENT”
featuring
JOHN V. WILMERDING, General Secretary, Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice involves applications of conflict resolution to issues
conventionally addressed by nation-states and other "higher levels” of
government; including and especially the kinds of “micro” problems
currently remanded to criminal justice systems. Within establishmentarian
systems, RJ argues for an independent judiciary unfettered by mandatory
sentencing laws. Outside these systems, RJ advocates for facilitated,
consensus-model methodologies, several of which have had success at the
“micro” level in reducing re-offending. John will extend these discussions
into some “macro” speculations on RJ applications in cases of
transgressions of nations against nations and peoples against peoples.
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 1999
Time: 12 p.m.1:30 p.m.
Place: Taubman B, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy St.
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2. “NOT IN MY NAME: A HOMICIDE SURVIVOR SPEAKS OUT”
featuring RENNY CUSHING, Executive Director, Murder Victims' Families for
Reconciliation
Opposition to the death penalty is often offender-oriented -- the victims’
families are left out of the equation and are often victimized for the
second time by the criminal justice system. The execution of an offender,
often thought to bring relief to those who survive, can lead instead to a
perpetuation of the cycle of violence, and bring further grief rather than
help the healing process. Renny Cushing, himself a family survivor of a
homicide, will speak about the double isolation suffered by
some survivors of homicide, first because of the murder, and then because
of their opposition to the death penalty. In lessons that translate
around the world and across violent situations, he will discuss how victims
of homicide move beyond the need for vengeance and begin to heal
themselves without giving in to vengeance.
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Time: 12 p.m.1:30 p.m.
Place: Taubman B, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy St.
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3. “THE WEINBERGER-POWELL DOCTRINE AND THE SUPPRESSION OF GENOCIDE”
featuring:
KEN CAMPBELL, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International
Relations, University of Delaware
The Pentagon’s Vietnam-generated doctrine on the proper use of military
force -- the “Weinberger-Powell” Doctrine -- is frequently blamed for the
failure of the United States to stop recent genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Critics charge that those in command want guaranteed victories with few or
no U.S. casualties, and that genocides of the post-Cold war era are too
bloody and ambiguous to provide this. Ken Campbell will examine this
criticism from the standpoint that there is nothing fundamentally
incompatible between the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine and the forceful
suppression of genocide. Rather, he contends that contemporary genocide
cannot be suppressed decisively without employing the Weinberger-Powell
Doctrine, and that a failure to understand this is one of the principal
reasons why the international community has failed so ignominiously to stop
genocide.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1999
TIME: 12 p.m.1:30 p.m.
PLACE: Perkins Room, One Elliot, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John
F. Kennedy St.
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4. “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS”
featuring:
DAN VAN NESS, Vice President, Prison Fellowship International
The restorative justice movement is a fast-growing alternative to
traditional criminal justice processes which focuses on crime as conflict
and the consequence of crime as harm to victims, communities and sometimes
even offenders. Restorative Justice applies peacemaking principles to
assist the victim, offender and affected community members in negotiating a
suitable response tocrime, aiming to repair the harm done and reduce the
likelihood of future harm. Although there are a number of advantages to
this approach to crime, there are also potential problems. One area of
concern lies in the protection of the rights of accused and convicted
individuals. Traditional, adversarial criminal justice processes can be
structured to observe these rights; will the more informal restorative
processes offer those protections as well? Van Ness argues that they will,
provided that fundamental principles of restorative justice are observed in
those processes.
DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1999
TIME: 1 p.m.2:30 p.m.
PLACE: Taubman 275, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy St.
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Questions: Contact Alison Smith at (617) 496-0351 or
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Human Rights Initiative
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Website: <http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/bcsia>
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