Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution

S.Y. Bowland, JD, is a founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute and co-edited the anthology Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice. She was born and raised in Harlem and earned her J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University. She is a skilled ADR and Restorative Processes Practitioner. She has taught at the high school, undergraduate and graduate educational levels.Hasshan Batts, DHSc, MSW, is a prison survivor, healer, son, father, brother, husband, grandfather and friend. Hasshan is a Community Epidemiologist, community based participatory researcher, and leading expert on Trauma Informed Care, Violence Prevention, Reentry and Community Engagement. Hasshan is the Executive Director of the Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley, adjunct professor, Lehigh University post-doctoral Research fellow, Rider-Pool Collective Impact fellow, and a distinguished Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leader. Hasshan has been featured in numerous interviews, documentaries and short films and he delivered a TEDX Talk on The Healing Power of Radical Welcome. Hasshan holds a joint MSW from North Carolina A&T and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a post graduate certificate in Global Health and Doctorate in Health Sciences from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Beth Roy, PhD, mediates organizations and communities confronting challenges to diversity. She teaches workshops on ways to talk and listen across differing identities. Her published works include Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict and 41 Shots…and Counting: What Amado Diallo Teaches Us about Policing, Race, and Justice. She co-edited the anthology Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice.. She is a co-founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute.Mary Adams Trujillo, PhD, is emeritus professor of intercultural communication and conflict transformation at North Park University. She is a co-founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute and co-edited the anthology Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice. She conducts programs in intercultural dialogue and spiritual practice in community settings.

This timely and compelling book offers a valuable approach for addressing issues of systemic racism and oppression in the field of conflict resolution. The ideas are highly original and shed light on an important topic that is largely unacknowledged and certainly unaddressed.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroductionSECTION ONE: HINDSIGHTIntroduction by Beth RoyChapter One: Aggregating Wisdom, Amplifying Voices by Cherise D. HairstonChapter Two: Rage is NOT an Option by Nadine TafoyaChapter Three: Achieving Belonging and Connectedness by Cheryl JamisonChapter Four: The Method IS the Message by Roberto ChenéChapter Five: Whiteness in Academia by Pushpa IyerChapter Six: The State of Rights and Dreams by Benjamin DavisChapter Seven: The Soft Technology of Control by Beth RoyChapter Eight: Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Learning by Lucy MooreChapter Nine: “Kareem was killed long before the trigger was pulled…and we are all complicit” by Hasshan Batts & Jeani GarciaChapter Ten: Letter from a white editor to her white readers by Beth RoySECTION TWO: INSIGHTWe by Rubye Howard BrayeIntroduction by S.Y. BowlandChapter Eleven: Vision of Inclusive KnowledgeEmbracing the Good: Taking a Risk by Maria VolpeWriting a Multicultural Choir by Dwight L. WilsonMessage to Credible Messengers by Hasshan BattsWhat Rule Do You Need an Exception To? by S.Y. BowlandChapter Twelve: Vision of Expansive CultureResponsibilities of a White Justice Fighter by Jeff HitchcockThe Jig is Up! Movement by Johnnie MitchellVision for Justice by Michelle ArmsterChapter Thirteen: Vision of Power-Sharing OrganizationsAchieving Solidarity in Decolonization by tom kunesh, S.Y. Bowland, Ji Choe, Jorge Morales & Diego NavarroInspired by Celeste BrockBring Your Magnificence by S.Y. Bowlandancestors by Frank Eugene HallChapter Fourteen: Vision of Welcoming InstitutionsDignity, Respect and Healing in a Diseased World by Diane CicconeVerdict by Mary L. Jones WadeChapter Fifteen: Vision of Equitable PracticesIn Search of Academic Freedom by Angie Beeman & Tsedale M. MelakuHow are we in the world? by S.Y. BowlandChapter Sixteen: Vision of Seeing the Invisible Context of Oppressionthe mudang sends the missionary home by Ji ChoeChapter Seventeen: Vision of ActionAn End to Myths and Hypocrisy by James CicconeWhere Can I Say It? By Laurie F. ChildersSECTION THREE: FORESIGHTIntroduction by Mary Adams TrujilloChapter Eighteen: In the Beginning: Setting the ContextTruth and (re)Conciliation by Mark CharlesBirthing a Nation by Jonathan WebbChapter Nineteen: Shifting ParadigmsShifting Paradigms by Beth Roy, Roberto Chené, John Paul Lederach, S.Y. Bowland & Mary Adams TrujilloOne Hundred Years From Now? You May Not Be There by Grande LumChapter Twenty: Keepers of TearsWriting as Conflict Resolution Practice by Laurene Miller PattersonPerformance as Conflict Resolution Practice by Jada GeeChapter Twenty-one: “We need to elder better”Digging Out After Atlanta by Tomi Nagai-RotheChapter Twenty-two: Transformative PedagogiesWe teach to change the world by Barbara L. Jones & Mary Adams TrujilloDecentering Power, Centering Stories by Michelle Clifton Soderstrom, Jamal Bakr & Henry CervantesChapter Twenty-three: Restorative Justice: What Is It Really?Sticking to Doing Things the Way We Always Have, Even When We Know It’s Not Working by Tonya CovingtonCan Restorative justice Make Young, Black lives Matter in Schools? by Johonna R. McCants-TurnerChapter Twenty-four: Hope and HealingPolitics of Hope and Healing: Lessons from Chicago by Gerson Ramirez & Henry CervantesChapter Twenty-five: Credible Witnesses and TestimoniesHeart Work by Rayshauna GrayRadical Welcome by Hasshan BattsChapter Twenty-six: Walking by FaithFierce Love by Cherice BockMorning Musing by Velda LoveConclusion