Doing Justice, Doing Life: A Conversation with Howard Zehr
What if justice meant sitting in a room with the person who harmed you? Howard Zehr has spent five decades asking that question.
Howard Zehr has been called the grandfather of restorative justice, a title he accepts with some amusement. In this conversation, he traces a path that began with a single year at Goshen College in 1962, a dining-table conversation with a civil rights leader who had worked alongside Dr. King, and a lecture that gave him what he came to call the gap principle: do the work no one else is doing. That principle took him to Morehouse College, to Talladega, and eventually…
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