Village of South Orange: CC&J - SHU Peace & Community Justice Speaker Series Online Event

Press release from the Village of South Orange:

Posted on: April 27, 2021

CC&J - SHU Peace & Community Justice Speaker Series Online Event

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. Join us for an evening of exchange with Dr. Forrest Pritchett and youth activists.

Join Civil Rights Era giants Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. and SHU's Dr. Forrest Pritchett to explore the practical steps that turn social justice activism into community level change through social work, social justice pedagogy, and other hyper local practices. Please register here: http://bit.ly/SHUCCnJSpeakerSeriesMay2

The Peace and Community Justice speaker series in partnership with South Orange Community Care and Justice initiative and Seton Hall University is seeking community unification and restorative practices through facilitated dialogue, collaborative problem solving, and non-directive forms of mediation.

Community Care and Justice (CC&J) is led by core community values such as universal dignity and worth, social justice, and the importance of human relationships and integrity. It is imperative as we lead initiatives surrounding restorative and transformative practices that we also lean on our history of accomplishments from leaders such as Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Dr. Forrest Pritchett.

Goals for the Speaker Series ExperienceParticipants will:

• Learn from the wisdom and teachings of Dr. Lafayette as well as the opportunity to ask questions. The event will be 1.5 hours, which will consist of opening and conversational exchange by Dr. Forrest Pritchett, Wisdom from Dr. Lafayette, Panel questions from community members in dialogue.
• Critically reflect upon the narratives and experiences of local and global social justice advocates such as Dr. Lafayette, among others.
• Deepen their knowledge of global social justice and nonviolent peacemaking in the context of social work, social justice pedagogy, and practice with an aim toward making positive change within their own communities.
• Reflect upon critical primary principles that underlie and inspire social justice advocates and practitioners, and explore how it is that these advocates activate the CC&J Community to become socially just peacemakers.

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This press release was produced by the Village of South Orange. The views expressed here are the author’s own.