WELCOME TO WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER
It is with sadness that Western Justice Center acknowledges the passing of Chief Judge James R. Browning:
“Chief Judge Browning was one of the Founding members of the Board of Directors of Western Justice Center while he was Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. For ten years, Chief Judge Browning flew from San Francisco to Pasadena to attend each board meeting. He was incredibly supportive of both the creation and work of Western Justice Center.”
Judge Dorothy W. Nelson
Founder, Western Justice Center
UPCOMING EVENTS
Train-the-Trainer, March 3, 10, 17 and 24
Western Justice Center Invitational, March 20 and 22
Mission and Vision
The mission of Western Justice Center (WJC) is to increase the opportunity for peaceful conflict resolution and displace the power of violence in our society. We design, implement, evaluate and promote innovative methods of conflict prevention and resolution for children, communities, and courts.
WJC envisions a society in which conflicts are transformed into opportunities for learning and growth.
What We Do
WJC promotes greater understanding about conflict resolution by designing training programs for both youth and adult audiences, convening dialogues to reduce tensions and prevent conflict, and providing technical support to ensure that conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution processes are effective.
Collaboration
WJC and Encompass have formed a collaboration that allows us to expand our services to schools. The mission of Encompass is to spark compassion, personal responsibility, and an appreciation of differences among California teenagers. In the future, WJC and Encompass will work together to educate about difference and resolving conflict in diverse communities.
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Western Justice Center Blog
Western Justice Center and Encompass have formed a collaboration that allows us to expand our services to schools. WJC would like to introduce you to our partner’s educator training program, Creating Bias-Free Classrooms. This interactive teacher-training program uses live, improvisational theater to equip educators to build safe and inclusive classroom environments. During each training session, teachers learn the laws and relevant teaching standards for creating a safe classroom. They assess their own comfort and competence in handling these issues, learn to identify various forms of bias, and get hands-on experience in the most effective techniques to use in a classroom. By watching realistic classroom scenes performed by teenage actors, the teachers get to see how bias affects every student in the classroom. Teachers can safely experiment with different strategies of addressing bias related to gender, race or sexual orientation by practicing on teenage actors who are trained in improvisational theater.
The program was created by Encompass and is a project of a service-learning class at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Join us on January 19, 2012 from 5-7:30 p.m. for an overview and demonstration of the program. Please RSVP with
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As a long-time activist, I have understood the theory of non-violent action for many years. I have studied the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and the teachings of Cesar Chavez. Only recently, however, have I come to understand and fully embrace the practice of non-violent action and conflict resolution.
August was a training whirlwind for WJC program staff and the stakeholders we work with across the education spectrum: teachers, students, and security officers. This approach of training stakeholders disperses conflict resolution knowledge throughout an educational institution so that all members of the school community can support one another in using conflict resolution skills.
Strong supporter Tanya Acker talks the debt ceiling, compromise, and what Congress can learn from elementary school students in her new blog piece on the Huffington Post. Click here to check it out and tell us what you think via
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