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Venue: Spurlock Museum

Address: 600 S. Gregory St. , Urbana

Cost: Free

Entry Age: 18

posted 3:07 pm Oct 8
modified 3:43 pm Oct 9

Howard Zehr, pioneer and founder of the restorative justice movement in the U.S., began the first victim-offender reconciliation programs in the country in the 1970s. Since then he has published his alternative approach to "doing justice," collaborated and consulted in justice programs in over a dozen countries, served the federal court by working with the victims in the Timothy McVeigh/Oklahoma City bombing trial, and now serves on the Victim Advisory Board of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, when he's not busy co-directing the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia.