Day 1

  9:00

Opening Worship

  9:30 

Introduction and Overview: Creating a Theological Framework

Seminar Designer

10:15

Break

10:30 

Session: Understanding Restorative Justice – an Introductory Workshop

Rev. Eddie Lopez, Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Racial Justice, General Board of Global Ministries

12:00

Lunch

  1:00  

Session: Death Penalty/the Prison Industrial Complex & Restorative Justice – Can They Coexist?

Margaret Kimberly, freelance journalist – The Black Commentator

  2:00

Break

  2:15

Session: Race, Reparations and Restorative Justice – Making the Connections

Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary

  3:30   

Preparation and Departure for UN Tour

Cost: $11.50 adults            $8.50 youth/students

April 16, 2004 

  9:00    

Community Worship – Communion Service

  9:30        

Session/Panel: Living Beyond a Culture of Violence – International Perspectives

Rev. Kathleen Stone, Church Center for the UN Chaplain

Ibrahim Ramey, National Program Staff Person, Fellowship of  Reconciliation

11:00 

Break

11:15  

Session/Panel: Living Beyond a Culture of Violence-Reflections from the Grassroots

Beth Navon & Frankie Mitchell, Friends of Island Academy

12:30

Wrap-up and Evaluation