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Working With Others

Transformative Justice and Conflict Transformation

From: Educating for Action

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This chapter is dedicated to introducing alternative processes of punitive justice and addressing conflict. This chapter first introduces and defines conflict and discusses why it is important for activists to understand it. Then, after explaining different ways to approach and manage conflict, the chapter introduces conflict transformation — a holistic, educational, empowering, and accountability-inducing process. Finally, this chapter compares and contrasts restorative justice and transformative justice.

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Anthony J. Nocella II

Anthony J. Nocella II, PhD, award-winning author, community organizer, and educator, is Visiting Professor in the School of Education at Hamline University and Senior Fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline University School of Law. Nocella is a scholar-activist rounded in the field of education and peace and conflict studies. His interests include social justice education, school-to-prison pipeline, critical pedagogy, disability pedagogy, ecopedagogy, transformative justice, hip-hop pedagogy, critical animal studies, and eco-ability. Dr. Nocella has published more than 50 scholarly articles and 15 books.

Melissa Chiprin

Melissa Chiprin is a California journalist/radio producer reporting on a range of subjects, including juvenile justice, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, sex trafficking and social justice movements. She is an organizer with Los Angeles Save the Kids and producer on Pacific-Radio’s Scholars’ Circle, with a B.A in Women’s Studies, California State University, Fullerton. Chiprin’s community involvement has included mentoring targeted teenagers, leading international political campaigns to abolish sex trafficking, and peer counseling with women who are homeless and affected by alcohol and drug addiction.

Anniessa Antar

Anniessa Antar is a social justice educator and prison abolitionist dedicated to transformative justice. She has worked with various prison abolition/prisoner justice groups, including Save the Kids, in the Twin Cities, and the Life After Life Collective, in Montreal. She also helped produce and host Prison Radio Show on CKUT in Montreal. She currently lives in Minneapolis, and is developing an alternative to the suspension program at a local high school. She enjoys karaoke and is motivated and inspired by the amazing students she works with every day.

Alisha Page

Alisha Page is the editor of Wisdom Behind Walls, a project of Save the Kids, which shares letters online and to youth from current prisoners who provide advice on such topics as crime, incarceration, oppression, anger management, life skills, and justice. Page became involved in prisoner support when her brother Maurece Graham was incarcerated. He is currently in prison in Minnesota and is involved in Wisdom Behind the Walls. Page is a life coach for signatureplanning.org, one of the founding members of Peoples Union, a derivative of Prisoners Union. Alisha is passionate about transformative justice, youth, and creating social change by partnering with those who are dedicated to prisoner support and alternatives to incarceration.