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YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit
Name:
YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit
Date:
October 5, 2011 - October 7, 2011
Website:
http://www.ywcamadison.org
Event Description:
NO Justice, NO Peace: A Restorative Approach to Racial Justice
Each year, the YWCA Madison hosts a racial justice summit that brings together community stakeholders to work on eliminating barriers that foster racisim in our community. The summit focuses on institutional racism and involves nationally-known keynote speakers and researchers, as well as local experts and advocates. Through an environment that encourages learning from and supporting each other in our common goals, the summit provides a platform for action planning and community dialogue.
What is Restorative Justice?
For the purposes of this Summit, the YWCA defines Restorative Justice as a set of values, principles and practices whose core is grounded in reconciliation, forgiveness and truth-telling. Restorative justice offers wholeness to the community by providing an opportunity for those who harm and those who are harmed to empathize with one another, and together with community, work to heal these harms.
This Summit will explore:
The possibility of using Restorative Justice as a strategy to address racial disparities in the justice system
How Restorative Justice can be used as an alternative to Retributive Justice
The role that Restorative Justice may play in healing the historic harms of racism in our community
Learn more at: www.ywcamadison.org/rjsummit
Each year, the YWCA Madison hosts a racial justice summit that brings together community stakeholders to work on eliminating barriers that foster racisim in our community. The summit focuses on institutional racism and involves nationally-known keynote speakers and researchers, as well as local experts and advocates. Through an environment that encourages learning from and supporting each other in our common goals, the summit provides a platform for action planning and community dialogue.
What is Restorative Justice?
For the purposes of this Summit, the YWCA defines Restorative Justice as a set of values, principles and practices whose core is grounded in reconciliation, forgiveness and truth-telling. Restorative justice offers wholeness to the community by providing an opportunity for those who harm and those who are harmed to empathize with one another, and together with community, work to heal these harms.
This Summit will explore:
The possibility of using Restorative Justice as a strategy to address racial disparities in the justice system
How Restorative Justice can be used as an alternative to Retributive Justice
The role that Restorative Justice may play in healing the historic harms of racism in our community
Learn more at: www.ywcamadison.org/rjsummit