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SUMMARY:Justice as Lived Experience  - Margot Slutyman
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Margot Van Sluytman will share her story of healing after viol
 ent crime and the importance of restorative justice. She will speak about 
 the rich friendship that has grown between her and the man and the man\, G
 len\, who killed her Father\, Theodore\, in an armed robbery in Toronto\, 
 Canada in 1978. In 2007 after reading about an award she received from the
  National Association for Poetry Therapy for her work creating and teachin
 g courses in therapeutic writing\, Glen contacted her. They learned that t
 hey each believed that respect\, responsibility\, and relationship\, the c
 ore values of restorative justice\, are crucial to how society lives justi
 ce.  Margot will speak about how a “tough on crime” agenda\, far too p
 unitive\, has little to do with living justice. She will challenge limitin
 g ideas of the “good” guys vs. the “bad” guys\; and\, she will sug
 gest that it is vital to come to recognize that the personal and the polit
 ical are crucial in how society forms\, reforms\, informs\, and transforms
  public policy\, underscoring that a “legal” system is not the same as
  a justice system.\n\nBIOGRAPHY:\n\nMargot Van Sluytman is an award-winnin
 g writer\, speaker\, justice advocate\, and workshop facilitator. Her talk
 s and workshops are presented in universities\, colleges\, jails\, healing
  centres\, and homeless shelters around the globe. Her Master’s Thesis\,
  Sawbonna: Justice as Lived-Experience\, addresses her strong belief in re
 storative justice and how it can empower victim\, offender\, our communiti
 es\, and society. She believes that the personal and the political are sym
 biotic siblings.  Her books include: Sawbonna: I See You a Real Life Resto
 rative Justice Story and The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hop
 e\, which is available in both English and French\, Correctional Services 
 Canada\, funded the French translation.  \n\nhttp://sawbonna.wordpress.com
 / \n
LOCATION:G06\, Boulind room\, Mary Allan Building\, \,  Faculty of Educati
 on\, Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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