National Virtual Restorative Justice Symposium 2023

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National Restorative Justice Symposium 2023

Overview

The Restorative Justice Association of Manitoba (RJAM) with the National Restorative Justice Symposium Planning Committee (NRJS Committee), is inviting applications to present at the 2023 national virtual symposium taking place November 20th and 21st. Please join us to share your work, vision, story, and/or teachings on Inspiring Innovation: Moving Restorative Justice from Margin to Mainstream. We will explore the possibilities and tensions of mainstreaming restorative justice, the power of localized efforts and the realities of systemic inequity. Our goal is to create space for learning, reflection, and collaborative dialogue on successes and challenges from across the country. The 2023 NRJS will continue to highlight how restorative justice can be used in innovative ways to facilitate social change. The goal of the virtual symposium is to engage participants in an exploration of how we can use collaboration, advocacy and education to increase the use of restorative justice practices, principles, and values when tackling complex social issues. Restorative justice can and should be used throughout our society and systems. We welcome applications from anyone engaged in restorative and transformative ways of living, being and working. Restorative Justice Week has been celebrated in the third week of November since 1996. The NRJS annual symposium is host to a national gathering of practitioners, researchers, academics, community members, advocates, systems representatives, policy and lawmakers, educators, other experts and stakeholders interested in restorative justice and its transformative potential. Our intention is to prioritize Indigenous, Black and People of Colour voices and members of all historically excluded communities.

Themes

The symposium will feature presentations and workshops that relate to the theme of exploring the movement of restorative justice from margin to mainstream with particular emphasis on:

• Indigenous justice•Restorative justice practices based in newcomer communities to Canada

• Law reform and access to justice

• Trauma informed care and approaches to justice

• Advancements in the use of restorative justice

• Facilitating social change

• Restorative justice and racial justice

• Restorative justice in education

• Restorative justice and children in government care

• Restorative justice and health care

• Client focused perspective•Healing and transformation

• Decolonizing restorative justice

• Affinity spaces for restorative justice

• Use of art based processes in restorative justice

• Restorative justice and gender-based violence.

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