Umbreit: Recent and upcoming presentations
Social work professor Mark Umbreit, director of the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking (CRJP), recently provided training in Naples, Italy, for the Italian Ministry of Justice. The training was related to their efforts to introduce national legislation to support victim offender mediation, as required of all member states of the European Union.
Later this month Mark will present a paper on restorative justice and human rights at a conference by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. In addition, at the request of Minnesotans for Human Rights, Mark and CRJP will provide a training session for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in both West Africa and the Twin Cities, which has the largest Liberian immigrant population (20,000+) in the U.S. Following years of severe internal political conflict, violence, and more than 200,000 deaths, Liberia (under the leadership of the first woman president of an African country) is in the process of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), following South Africa’s TRC model. Two TRC Commissioners from Liberia in West Africa, along with two local Liberian leaders, will be participants in the six-day November training. Representatives from seven other countries and numerous U.S. states will also be part of this training session.