Open to any student who would like to develop critical leadership skills, have a positive impact on the campus climate, and basically change the world!
Training opportunities are offered several times each semester. Check Wolf Connect for dates and times.
Register on Wolf Connect or contact the Peace Pack leaders for more information:
Lauren Harris
Student Conduct Specialist –Investigator/ Office of Community Standards
Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
678-839- 4733
peacepack@westga.edu
Tahirih Varner
Director of Ombuds Services/ Office of the University Ombuds
President’s Division
678-839-4165
peacepack@westga.edu
Restorative Justice (RJ) theory provides a framework for facilitating peaceful and balanced group dialogue around difficult or controversial topics. The goal is not to convince or persuade each other of one viewpoint or another, but simply to facilitate mutual understanding that may hopefully lead to more respectful and possibly even helpful, collaborative interactions.
Topics for campus RJ forums
These should be topics chosen by the student group and identified as important, controversial matters. If it is not controversial enough or important enough, then there is probably no need to implement a peaceful plan to address it, because it would not have disturbed the peace much to begin with.
Examples:
After facilitating a dialogue for greater understanding using the RJ method, your group will use the ethical decision-making techniques gained to create a plan to positively impact the matter discussed and promote peace. If your topic was the Mental Health of College Students, for example, and you learned that anxiety and suicide rates spike around exam time, your group my create a Wall of Encouragement, where you invite students to decorate a wall with words of encouragement for one another. Other examples of activities to promote peace, understanding and positive climates on college campuses across the country are: