View the conference schedule and presentation materials (where provided).
Day 1 Plenary Sessions
Keynote — John Braithwaite
Panels
Partnering For Success: Restorative Justice in Nova Scotia
Moderator: Jennifer Llewellyn, Panelists: Danny Graham Q.C., Janet Briggs, Donald Clairmont, Pat Gorham
Measuring Success: Research on Restorative Justice
Moderator: Bruce Schenk, Panelists: Jennifer Llewellyn, Diane Crocker, Donald Clairmont, Bruce Archibald
Working Holistically
Moderator: Stephanie McInnis-Langley, Panelists: Pat Gorham, Bruce Archibald, Mark Finnis
Addressing Equity and Difference
Moderator: Jennifer Llewellyn, Panelists: Michelle Williams-Lorde, Yvonne Atwell, Melanie Randall, Lori Haskell, Paul Marshall, Angelina Amaral
Restorative Approaches within Primary, Secondary and Higher Education
Moderator: Bruce Schenk, Panelists: Richard Derible, Mary Manning, Mark Braithwaite, Emma Halpern, Estelle Macdonald
Restorative Approaches at Work
Moderator: Bruce Archibald, Panelists: John Braithwaite, Terry O’Connell, Vern White
Day 2 — Thursday, June 16, 2011
A Day in the Life at Collingwood Primary School, Hull''s Leading Restorative School — Irene Fay, Kay Cawley
Building a Restorative Culture in Your Classroom or School — Sue Hopgood, Caroline Missal
Building Restorative Organizations: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Together Restoratively — Barbara Tomporowski
Celebrating Circles in the Classroom — Tessa Adams, Patricia Doyle
Classroom Circles: Opportunities for Listening and Learning Together — Marg A. Armstrong
Collaborative Partnership: Restorative Justice Organizations and Governments — Jan Moran, Jean-Jacques Beauchamp
Contesting Policy that Undermines Institutionalizing Restorative Counseling for Victims of Crime — Tara Ney
Creating Safe Spaces for Scary Conversations: Restorative Practices as a Cultural Competency Tool — Martin Morrison, Gola Taraschi
Developing Respectful Relationships Through Restorative Conversations — Sylvia Moore
Effectiveness of a Whole-School Restorative Practices Model — Pamela B. Anderson, Barbara Blazej
Engaging Families in Family Life While Working Toward a Restorative City within Hull, UK — Jo Faulkner, Kay Cawley
How Should Communities Respond to Those Harmed by the Death Penalty? — Walter C. Long, Susannah Sheffer
Hull, UK: Heading for a Restorative City — Mark Finnis, Estelle Macdonald, Chris Straker
If Two and Three Year Olds Can, So Can You! — Alison Aherne
Implementing Restorative Practices with a Board of Education — Tanja Roglic, Kristen Armstrong, Josh Connor, Jeff Child
Integrated Adult Restorative Justice Pilot Project — Angelina Amaral, Janis Aitken, Chris King
Integrating Effective Intervention Principles with Restorative Justice — Jon Kidde
Integrating Restorative Practices into Administrative Agency Processes — Lisa DeLong, Gerald Hashey
Law, Restorative Justice and Gender-Based Violence: Exploring the Intersections — Lori Haskell, Melanie Randall
Looking Back on Lansing: A Retrospective on the Central Michigan Restorative Justice Initiative — Nancy Schertzing
Meeting the Needs of Victims and Offenders in the Pursuit of Justice — Paul Redekop
Myth, Magic and Restorative Practices: A Human Way of Building Community — Bill Carr
Offenders’ Voices: The Impact of the Residential School, Child Welfare System and Intergenerational Trauma Upon the Incarceration of Aboriginals — Mike Gauthier
Partnering and Piloting: Restorative Practices with Schools, Police and Youth — Deb Witzel, Laura Snider
Perspectives on Harm — Dorothy Vaandering
Poetry Workshops As Restorative Practice — Alison Smith
Professionalization of the Restorative Justice Practitioner: Considerations for Community-Based Agencies — Sylvia Anne Dearing, Susan E. Henderson
Promoting a Restorative Approach at the Junior/Senior High Level: One School’s Story — Mary Manning, Wendy Jones Darrow
Re-Culturing a Cluster of Schools in the Toronto District School Board: Our Vision of Hope — Deborah Blair, Sandra Thomas, Steve Bannerman, Bernard Lee, Sansha Meynert
Removing the Bars: A Peacemaker’s Approach to Building Community in a Correctional Environment — Sheri L. Lockwood
Restorative Action for Youth: A Process for Addressing Youth Crime — Megan Bowman, Paul Kruse
Restorative Approaches to Justice in South Africa: From Margins to Mainstream — Hema Hargovan
Restorative Justice and Sexual Offences: An Exploration of the Potential Harms and Benefits — Lisa MacDougall
Restorative Justice Implementation in an Urban Environment — Vern White
Restorative Justice in Natural Resource Law Enforcement: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Pacific Region) — Michael Jones, Neil Jensen
Restorative Practices in a Youth Custody Setting — Lorri Bower, Paulette MacKinnon
Restorative Practices in Action: Grades Primary to 12 — Kevin Mapplebeck, Kim Wood, Scott Milner
Restoring Justice to Education: Lessons Learned from a Middle School Pilot Project — Edmon Tucker
Revising Vermont''s Sentencing Options Manual: Incorporating Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices — Jan Peter Dembinski
SOS: Without the Funding — Elvenia Gray-Sandford
Special Topics Panel: Community Justice Society of Halifax — Yvonne Atwell, Trish O''Brien, Gola Taraschi, Sobaz Benjamin, Selena Guildford
Special Topics Panel: Corrections and Reintegration — Stanley Basler, Carol Smith, Shirley Dixon, Christina Farnsworth
Special Topics Panel: Restorative Practices In Higher Education — Linda J. Baker, Robert M. Bishop, Kaaren Williamsen, Marlene Edelstein, Patty Dana
Street Mediation: Empowering Young People by Educating Them as Mediators — Espen Marius Foss, Magnus Lønneberg Gjerde
Successful Multi-Agency Collaborations: One Community''s Experiences Promoting Restorative Practices — Jimmy Frickey, Cheryl Spotswood
The Challenge: Integrating Restorative Practice in Corrections, Youth and Social Work Settings — Terry O''Connell
The Development of Restorative Practices in Northern Europe — Ida Hydle
The Geographic Analysis of Crime Data and Restorative Justice in Rural and Urban Nova Scotia — Anthony Thomson, Robert Lloyd Roe, Malcolm Shookner
The Impact of Restorative Practices on Brain Development and Behaviour — Chuck Saufler
The Implementation of Restorative Justice in Norwegian Prisons: Shortcomings and Limitations — Berit Albrecht
The Learning Community Approach in Japanese Schools: Building Collegial and Cooperative Relationships Among Teachers — Eriko Yamabe, Kota Takehara
The Meaning of (Restorative) Justice: Results from a Survey of Practitioners — Diane Crocker
The Mi''kmaw Legal Support Network''s Role in Honouring Restorative Practices for Aboriginal People — Angelina Amaral, Grace Campbell
The Pros and Cons of Retaining Punitive Elements in Restorative Practices — Sylvia Clute
The Realities and Challenges of Implementing Restorative Practices in Jamaica — Audrey Laurel Barrett, Donna Parchment Brown
The Role of Restorative Practices in a District-Wide Bullying Prevention Program — Kevin Cutler, Heather Truscott
Therapeutic Justice and Peace Circles: A Restorative Opportunity for Youth Drug Users in Conflict with the Law — Cristiana Pereira Baptista
“Tough Case”: How Restorative Justice Inspired a Play and the Play Inspired 30,000 Teenagers — David S. Craig
Towards Becoming a Restorative Culture Faith Community: A New Journey by Canadian Churches — Bruce A. Schenk, Anne Martin, Mark Vander Vennen
Transcending Governmental Silos Through Restorative Justice — Jennifer Llewellyn, Bruce P. Archibald
Transformative Discipline®: A Restorative Justice System for Interrupting the Bullying Cycle — Jolene Schillinger-Erikson, Ken Erikson
Transforming Family Violence Through "Teachable Moments": Working Restoratively with Teens Who Are Violent at Home — Lily Anderson, Lynette Robinson
Translating Principles into Practice: The Case for a Practice Standards Approach — Pat Gorham, Janet Briggs
Using “Undercover Teams” to Re-Story Bullying Relationships — Mike Williams
Using Restorative Practices and a Strength-Based Approach to Shape the Culture of a School — Michelle Probizanski, Charles Bishop
Using the Youth Criminal Justice Act and Conferencing as a Community-Based Intervention for Offending or At-Risk Youth — Ian Robertson, Nadine Wallace
Waterloo Region’s Restorative Justice Response to Elder Abuse — Arlene Groh
What Needs to Be Done to Establish a "Restorative Practice" School — Lisa Marie Cook
Whole-School Implementation — Making It Stick! — Chris Straker
Workplace Bullying: Naming the Problem — A First Intervention in Healing and Workplace Restoration — Susan J. Coldwell, Kerry Johnson
Day 3 — Friday, June 17, 2011
A Community Heart: The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast Makes a Big Difference at Maine’s First Department of Corrections Reentry Program — Suzanne Farley, Margaret Micolichek
Agendas vs. Circles, Agencies vs. Agencies — Alison Aherne
Beyond Practices: Building a Sustainable Restorative Approach in Schools — Emma Halpern
Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: The End of Zero Tolerance — Michelle Ellen, Donna Gilbert
Bringing Restorative Justice into Schools: From the Voices of Students — Mary Manning, Bria Miller, Bianca Arey, Rachael Hanakowski, Lauren Blinkhorn, Derek Lesser
Building Our Restorative Community: Developing Restorative Questioning for Learning and Teaching — Can It Be Done? — Phil McCormick
Children at the Critical Hour (CATCH): An Early Intervention Program for Children Aged 8 to 11 — Sylvia Anne Dearing, Danielle Brauen
Community Collaboration to Build Restorative Approaches in Response to Elder Abuse — Pat Gorham, Jocelyn Yerxa, Yvon McCauley, Dawn Thomas, Bill Poole
Crime Prevention Educational Programs and Workshops — Kathy Debra Wagstaff, Ruth Winterhalt
Due Process and Restorative Justice — Bruce P. Archibald
Engagement, Attendance and Attainment: Collaborative Solutions for Straitened Times — Kevin Beaton, Gregor Rae
Multisite Restorative Justice Programs: Benefits and Challenges — Andrew McWhinnie
Norfolk, UK: On Our Way to Becoming a Restorative County — Kirsten Cooper
Racing Restorative Justice: Creating Ripples or Revolutions? The African Nova Scotian Experience — Michelle Yvette Williams-Lorde
Relational and Restorative Connections — Kath Cronin, Ron Cronin-Lampe
Relationships Rebuilt: A Multitiered Implementation of Restorative Practices — Jeff Thornborrow, Steve Spack
Restorative Approaches in More Serious Criminal Cases — Helen Lilla Jane Smith-McIntyre, Sheila Sinclair
Restorative Justice in Child Protection: An Answer to Bureaucratic Top-Down Management in the Australian System? — Valerie Braithwaite
Restorative Justice: The Missing Part in the Anti-Bullying Statutes — Susan H. Duncan
Restorative Pedagogies: From Theory to Practice in Training and Teaching — Jane A. Nicholson
Restorative Practices: Birthing a Philosophy of Positive Change — Shirley Jannett Burris, Deborah Mitchell, John Burke, Susan Chandler
Restoratively Approaching Mediation (pdf from OSSTF)— Angie Dornai, Matt Daudlin
Restoring Peaceful Communities Through Caring and Restorative Practices — Peggy A. Lobb
Serious Crime Mediation: Restorative Opportunities — Angela Gates, Renee Laframboise
Shared Power in Community: Regenerative Capacity — Govert van Ginkel (also download related game)
The Mi''kmaw Legal Support Network''s Mi''kmaw Venture Program Restoring Aboriginal Youths''Participation in Community and Culture — Grace Campbell, Patrick Wilmot
The Reception of Restorative Justice by the Criminal Justice System — Diane Crocker, Donald Clairmont
Vermont Community Justice Centers: The Journey from Vision to Reality — Yvonne Byrd
Victim-Offender Mediation and other Restorative Practices in Portugal: Why Not? — Artur Costa dos Santos
Writing Wrongs: A Practical Framework for Working with Young People — Andy Winters
