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Honest Practice Through Reflective Practice
Presentation and Discussion with Susan Allen and PhD Student Rochelle Arms
Tuesday, April 14th
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Conference Room 5145
Conflict resolution practitioners do a lot of practicing, less reflecting on practice, and even less of developing our ability to reflect and learn. However, in order to be effective in our reflections about practice, we need to understand how to be learn through reflection. This session will provide a basis of understanding for reflective practice, and will give participants an opportunity to practice reflection in action through interactive exercises. In doing so, we will explore these and other questions:
· How can we be sure that we’re upholding the principles we say we uphold in practice?
· How do we identify the intervention behaviors that uphold our principles?
· How do we know when we have blind spots and what they are, if by definition, we can’t see them?
· How do we establish parameters for our practice (what I do, and what I don’t do)?
· How do we exercise collective reflective practice?
Susan H. Allen directs the Center for Peacemaking Practice at George Mason University (GMU). She is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution. Her main focus is on reflective practice and research that emerges from practice contexts. She has substantial expertise in intermediary roles and coordination amongst intermediaries, evaluation of conflict resolution initiatives, and theories of change, indicators of change, and evaluation in conflict resolution practice. She has engaged long-term in conflict resolution in the South Caucasus, as well as contributing to a variety of conflict resolution initiatives in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa.
Rochelle Arms most recently served as the Restorative Justice Coordinator of the New York Peace Institute.While there, she managed mediation and restorative justice initiatives with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Juvenile Justice Courts, schools, and community agencies in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the last 14 years, she has worked both in the U.S. and abroad in collaborative processes and restorative justice projects, with a variety of groups, including civil society organizations in India, indigenous peoples in Argentina, immigrants and refugees, and homicide offenders and victim survivors in Kentucky. Rochelle is Panamanian-American, and completed her Masters Degree in International Relations as a Rotary Peace Fellow in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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