The course provides a critical introduction to the restorative justice and trauma healing fields. Restorative justice will be examined within the criminal and traditional justice systems in American as well as several international contexts. Trauma healing will be explored as a component of the restorative justice process, and both are situated in a larger peacebuilding framework. The importance and power of Dignity will be examined as a component of the restorative process in post-crime contexts and as a preventative aspect of violence. One of the "hands-on" segments of the course will be an Alternative to Violence Project training at Graterford Prison in PennsylvaniaThis course will explore how traumagenic experiences influence a person’s body, social identities, and social context. In these experiences, harms are created and done to individuals, groups of people, communities, and organizations. We will explore how the values, principles, and practices of restorative justice can speak into and transform these harms. We will also explore how systems of domination and oppression create traumagenic systems designed to create harm on participants of the system. With its emphasis on theory and practice, the course is useful for those planning to work in church ministry, business, education, social work, peacebuilding, and many other areas.
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