Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice

In addition to the work in conflict resolution for which the ICCCR is noted, is our work in the area of social justice. Our oppression and social justice faculty seminar on social justice stimulated the organizing of a two-day conference in 2003, to engage scholars, practitioners and activists working in these areas to join together across practices to inform each other and to organize cross-discipline interventions. Graduate students were an integral part of this initiative as there was a conscious effort made to engage, nurture and develop the next generation of scholars, practitioners and activists in this field. Results and follow-up activities from the conference are: a special guest-edited edition of the Journal of Social Justice Research; dialogue series with oppression and social justice as topics; establishment of the Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice; and a series of formal and informal collaborations between academics, practitioners and activists.