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Contribution:
We request payment of $50-$110 to support our work and help us better serve the community.After completing the registration below, please submit payment today–
https://ssl.charityweb.net/dcpeaceteam/training.htm; or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave. College Park, MD 20740.
This training is provided by the DC Peace Team, which empowers ordinary civilians to increasingly serve their communities particularly as nonviolent peacekeepers, and by extension as peacemakers and peacebuilders. The DC Peace Team lives this mission by deploying unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment units, providing training in various nonviolent skills, and facilitating dialogues and restorative justice approaches.
For more information about the DC Peace Team, please visit our website at www.dcpeaceteam.org
Facilitator(s):
Akanksha Marwah Akanksha Marwah, Ph.D. (she/her) is a conflict resolution professional with a Ph.D. in Restorative Child Justice, specializing in the re-integration of children in conflict with the law. Her research highlights the transformative potential of restorative justice within the child justice system. As an experienced academic, she has nurtured students at prestigious Indian institutions. Trained in mediation and restorative justice, she actively works with schools and colleges to foster conflict resolution locally and internationally. Co-founding Accords International, she promotes empathy-driven approaches worldwide. Dr. Marwah designs impactful restorative justice programs with the DC Peace Team and consults for the Center for Dialogue and Resolution on youth justice projects. Her initiatives integrate compassion, empowering global communities. An advocate for equity, her work bridges institutional research with practical outreach, ensuring restorative practices are both responsive and transformative. Outside her professional life, she enjoys traveling and exploring culinary arts.
Jane Piper is a rape survivor from London, Ontario. Restorative justice helped her to rebuild a life of wholeness by engaging in surrogate healing conversations. After discovering that the man who harmed her was not yet ready for accountability, Jane began a quest to find answers by speaking to others who have caused severe harm. Living back in Canada again, Jane worked remotely as a Healing Partner for the Ahimsa Collective in Oakland, California, assisting men incarcerated for violent crimes in writing apology letters to those they have harmed. She travels often to share her story in California prisons and has spoken at San Quentin, Correctional Training Facility, Valley State Prison and Mule Creek State Prison as well as Mission Institution in Mission, B.C, and Fraser Valley Institution in Abbotsford. She shares her story publicly with diverse audiences from conferences to high schools and colleges to prison accountability groups in both the US and Canada.
Today, Jane works as Peer Support Worker at the London Abused Women’s Centre in London, Ontario, where she supports women who have experienced violence and human trafficking.
Jeri Fields (she/her) is a former educator who serves in her community as a first responder chaplain with a longstanding commitment to the spiritual well-being of all of God’s people. She recently earned a Professional Certificate in Restorative Justice from Vermont Law School. Jeri is inspired by the transforming and healing powers that occur within restorative practices that offer spaces to be brave and vulnerable as personal stories are shared openly with authenticity, deep listening, and respect for others. In her professional and personal life, Jeri is passionate about restorative justice and is an enthusiastic member of the Restorative Justice family of the DC Peace Team.
