Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Webinar: Restorative Practices

Name: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Webinar: Restorative Practices
Start: 2022-10-06T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2022-10-06T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Online Event

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Academic Discussion Virtual Webinar

Thu, Oct 6, 2022

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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The U.S. Correctional System’s raison d’etre is to correct or rehabilitate individuals, but it serves instead to protect society against crime and exact punishment on wrongdoers, expecting them to refrain from future wrongdoing regardless of the underlying reasons for the initial engagement in criminal activity. The retribution within this system belongs to a penal philosophy that is archaic and discredited by penologists. This outdated logic assumes that man is a rational, pleasure-seeking creature who can be prevented from engaging in antisocial and illegal behavior simply because of the prospect that the pain of punishment will outweigh the benefits gained from the commission of the crime. This assumption may be misplaced, if recidivism rates and prison populations are any indication.

Enter Restorative Justice, an approach that addresses the root cause for long term/permanent results as opposed to addressing the symptoms, the current approach which is manifesting short term/temporary results. In this webinar, NECR Instructor Dr. Dianne Williams will discuss her work as a Restorative Justice practitioner as well as her recently published paper, “A Discursive Public Health Approach to Wrongdoing and the Wrongdoer.”

For questions, please contact Kjerstin Pugh (kep2137@columbia.edu)

For additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at 212-854-9666 or inquire@sps.columbia.edu.

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Dr. Dianne Williams

International Mediator and Restorative Practitioner

Dr. Williams brings a wide range of international conflict-related training experience. She has a strong background in the Caribbean and Latin America, in particular around criminology, conflict resolution, mediation, restorative practices, restorative justice and cultural competency. In her previous life she was a Criminologist and Consultant and has done coursework at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the International Institute for Restorative Practices as well as the National Defense University William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, where she is a rostered adjunct instructor. She is a Clinically Certified Criminal Justice Specialist, a Certified Sentence Mitigation Specialist, a Certified Social and Behavioral Research Investigator and a Certified Mediator. She is a Licensed Trainer of Trainers in Restorative Practices, a Crime Prevention through Community Engagement and a Crime Prevention through Environmental Design specialist. Dr. Williams has numerous publications and co-authored the 2012 United Nation’s Human Development Report for Trinidad and Tobago.

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