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We invite you attend the 15th IIRP World Conference,
August 1-3, 2012, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
This interdisciplinary conference will provide an international perspective on restorative practices theory and practice in a variety of settings, including education, social welfare, criminal justice, community development and workplaces. Restorative practitioners from around the world will share their knowledge and achievements and find encouragement, support and advice.
A participatory experience. Aside from a few featured speakers and videos, our conferences are created by you and others like you who have submitted proposals to present in 50-minute breakout sessions.
Featured speakers. Each day will begin with a plenary session. This year's featured presentations will include:
- Building Campus Community: Restorative Practices in Residential Life, with Stacey Miller, director of residential life at the University of Vermont
- FGC/FGDM as a Transition from Prison in Hungary, with Vidia Negrea, director of the Community Service Foundation of Hungary
- Whole-School Change Through Restorative Practices, with IIRP instructor Steve Korr
- Restorative Practices in Neighborhoods in Lima, Peru, with Jean Schmitz, director of the Latin American Institute for Restorative Practices
- Building a Worldwide Restorative Practices Learning Network, with IIRP president and founder Ted Wachtel
Building a worldwide restorative practices learning network
The IIRP proposes a participatory, collaborative learning network to advance restorative practices around the world. On July 31, the day before the conference, the IIRP has scheduled a meeting in Bethlehem in which interested individuals and organizations will plan the steps necessary to develop this new membership organization. The meeting will consider the activities of the tentatively named Restorative Practices Association, which may include an internet-based professional magazine and peer-reviewed academic journal. The IIRP will, in the months preceding the conference, conduct a series of worldwide surveys to assess interest in the creation of this new Restorative Practices Association.
