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Monday November 20th

Keynote Education Panel

Educator voices will gather to discuss Moving Restorative Justice from Margin to Mainstream within K-12 school systems. Educators Skye Bowan (ON), Sarah McDonald Moores (NL), Monica Kreft (NWT) and Caralyn Huffman (BC) will lead us in a conversation about the challenge of system change and the importance of leveraging policy, practitioner preparation and amplifying student voice in the critical work of fostering the system change necessary for mainstreaming restorative justice in education.

Tuesday November 21st

Innovations and Opportunities in Nova Scotia: The Potential of Restorative Justice as a Process to Achieve Racial Justice

Join Charys Payne & Tiffany Gordon from the African Nova Scotian Justice Institution (ANSJI) for a discussion on understanding the principles, impact and necessity of racial justice. They will introduce and discuss the natural principled alignment of restorative justice and racial justice and discuss how systems-led approaches have interfered with the potential of restorative justice to achieve racial justice. This talk will also highlight the importance of considering the intersections of race and gender in restorative processes. Touching on the Desmond Inquiry process and the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission findings and the opportunities that restorative justice may offer in gender-based violence contexts (i.e., continued viability of provincial moratoria on the use of restorative justice processes in matters involving intimate partner violence). Pariticpants can expect to build an understanding of the potential of community-led restorative justice to centre elements of equity, diversity, inclusion, genderbased analysis, as well as racial/structural trauma and cultural competence, which we believe to be necessary to achieve both personal and systemic transformation. This would include discussion around racism’s affect on community and interpersonal safety and how restorative justice processes can cause greater harm to racialized and underrepresented communities when the context of race, intersectionality, and the social determinates of health and justice, are not central to the restorative justice process.