• Restorative Justice Ministry Network
• Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
• Center for Restorative Justice, Suffolk University
• Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
• Healings of Persons Exceptional
• The Coalition for Equity and Restorative Justice
• International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers
• Fundación CEPPA- Centro de Estudios para la Paz (San Jose, Costa Rica)
• The Maine Council of Churches
• Radical Education Community.

So far, the planned activities span a wide array of topics and locations with  several communities acting as major event hubs. Below is a tentative schedule. Please note that these dates and locations are subject to change.

• Portland, Oregon

• • J. Kim Wright, Renaissance Lawyer - Visionary Law           

  • Terri Kelly- Portland State- Hate Crimes

  • Facilitator Training (Unconfirmed)

  • Tony Nocella-- Radical Peace Community and how it relates to restorative justice

  College Station, Texas

• • Restorative Justice Ministry Network Conference (April 19-20)

• Boston, Massachusetts

• • Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University (Elise Boulding "building peaceful communities")

• Maine

• • Ken Hamilton (HOPE) is looking at options across Maine and New England. He will lead a program on voluntary apologies as they relate to restorative justice.

• Radical Forgiveness Workshops

• • Radical Forgiveness Ceremony: April 17, 7:00 – 9:30pm. Unity of Phoenix, 1500 East Greenway Pkwy, Phoenix. No booking necessary. Directions 602-978-3200

  • Radical Forgiveness Ceremony: April 19, 7:00 – 9:30pm, Reunion Center, 140 Mayhew Way, Pleasant Hill, CA. No booking necessary. Directions 925-946-0645. 

  • Colin Tipping, author of Radical Forgiveness, will do two workshops during the week.  www.radicalforgiveness.com. 

    Other activities being discussed include

    • Nightly conference calls on topics related to restorative justice
    • Relationship of Restorative Justice to School Community
    • Relationship between various factions of restorative justice movement
    • Reintegration of Offender into communities (how are we doing?)
    • Drug Concerns in prison and how they relate to restorative justice (formal proposal on table)
    • Youth as restorative leaders
    Planning continues with the open call for sponsors ending on March 15. For more information or to include an activity in the program contact Tony Brown at tony@fcrjquaker.org or RJWeek2002@fcrjquaker.org.  Also, the Friends Committee on Restorative Justice has added some information to its website http://www.fcrjquaker.org/.

     

    By Lynette Parker

    March 2002