Director, Center for Restorative Justice, Univ of Minnesota
Dr. Mark Umbreit is a professor and founding director of the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. He is an internationally recognized practitioner and scholar with more than forty years of experience as a mediator, peacemaker, trainer, teacher and researcher.
Umbreit has authored nine books and more than 200 other publications in the fields of restorative justice, mediation, spirituality, forgiveness and peacemaking. He has conducted training seminars and lectures throughout the world: Asia, Africa, Europe, the Mideast, and North/South America. Umbreit’s research has contributed significantly to restorative justice policy development in the US and other nations. At the National Restorative Justice Conference in June of 2013, Umbreit was elected the founding president of the new National Association for Community and Restorative Justice.