Healing the Wounds: A Roundtable Discussion on Restorative Justice

Posted by on March 06, 2011

Healing the Wounds: A Roundtable Discussion on Restorative Justice
Tuesday, March 15th
6pm – 7:30pm
Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
University of Pennsylvania

Exploring social transformation and justice in the wake of slavery in the U.S., the Holocaust, Japanese-American internment, and apartheid in South Africa

Hosted by the Race Dialogue Project with support from the Philomathean Society

How do nations and other groups address the aftermath of large-scale oppression, mass discrimination, and violence? We will compare approaches to restorative justice, or the healing of the parties to …conflict—victims, offenders, and witnesses—in the following historical cases: slavery in the U.S., the Holocaust, Japanese-American internment, and apartheid in South Africa.

The event will be an engaging conversation in which attendees pose questions to our featured professors:
– Dr. Steven Hahn (Penn, History) concentrates on African-American history and the history of slavery and emancipation.
– Dr. Ian Lustick (Penn, Political Science) focuses on negotiations in the 1950s between Israel and Germany.
– Dr. Eiichiro Azuma (Penn, History) specializes in migration and Japanese American history.
– Dr. Zolani Ngwane (Haverford, Anthropology) studies the transformation of South African social institutions in the post-apartheid era.
Moderated by Rev. Charles Howard, University Chaplain

Dinner will be served at 5:45 PM
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