<div class="gmail_quote">A talk: Using restorative practices to engage racial and
other types of community conflicts. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Among the cases <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D</span> will talk about is
this recent one in Seattle in which the police shot to death an
American Indian street wood carver when the carver didn't put down his
carving knife. As it happens, the attorney hired by the carver's family
is a restorative circle practitioner and, at her suggestion, the family
and the police department agreed to do a restorative circle. This article doesn't
go into a lot of detail, but it does include a pdf of the agreements
voluntarily made between the family and the police department at the
conclusion of the circle. The document is in many ways remarkable, both
in its range and imagination: <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014113565_diazreport03m.html" target="_blank">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014113565_diazreport03m.html</a><div style="display:inline;padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height:16px">
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<br>The talk is open to the public, so please feel free to forward the invitation to anyone you think may be interested.<br><br>At 7 pm on Thursday March 10, 2011 in the auditorium of the Urbana
Free Library, </div><div class="gmail_quote">A talk by Mikhail Lyubansky on "Using Restorative Justice to Heal Race Relations and Other Community Conflicts."</div><div class="gmail_quote">Host: the Champaign County Libertarian Party </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote">For those of us living in the United States, "doing justice" is
mostly synonymous with administering punishment. Indeed, many of us
would be hard pressed even to imagine an alternative justice system. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Yet alternatives abound in the form of restorative justice.
Whereas conventional systems ask "Who is at fault?" and "What's the
appropriate punishment?", restorative systems ask "What harm was done?"
and "How do we repair it?" The difference is not just linguistic, but
creates the opportunity for genuine healing.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Restorative justice has implications across a wide range of
contexts, from schools to family courts, from criminal justice systems
to community relations. What would our communities and their
institutions look like if they used restorative practices?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Psychology professor and restorative circle practitioner Mikhail
Lyubansky will share one particular restorative practice, called
restorative circles, which has been used in many parts of the world to
transform how people engage with conflict and with each other.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The talk is free and open to the public, with refreshments and time for questions.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">More about the speaker: Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D.<br>Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: <a href="http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/%7Elyubansk" target="_blank">http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~lyubansk</a><br>
Blogger, Psychology Today: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines</a><br>Managing Editor, OpEdNews: <a href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author18834.html" target="_blank">http://www.opednews.com/author/author18834.html</a></span></div>
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<div>More about the host: The Champaign Co. Libertarian Party meets at 7 pm on the second
Thursday of each month, generally in the auditorium of the Urbana Free
Library. The library would like us to inform you that they do not
sponsor our programs. For further information, please contact Dianna Visek at 217-367-5027 or chair @<a href="http://lpchampaign.org/" target="_blank">lpchampaign.org</a><div style="display:inline;padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height:16px">
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