Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, a native of Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Director of Peace & Justice Studies, Affiliate of Education, and Advisory Committee Member for International & Global Studies, Public Policy, and Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. His doctorate is in International Educational Development and Peace Education from Columbia University, and his research and writing center on school/structural violence, educational inequity, and youth/community empowerment. He was a Visiting Scholar (2015-2016) at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and he is one of the inaugural Emerging Scholar Award recipients of CIES’s African Diaspora Special Interest Group (2017). He is a recipient of both a Spencer Foundation Grant and a Fulbright Global Scholar Award for a (2021-2023) project on decolonial peace and justice education that will take him to Ghana, Brazil, Jamaica, and Georgia (USA) to document Afro-centric, youth-based work. Hakim travels the world conducting workshops on restorative circles, mediation and conflict resolution with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders.
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Dr. Williams, I am interested in finding out more about your work with Restorative Circles, as this sounds very similar to an idea I had following the recent spate of school violence in Trinidad. In looking at the problems a number of schools in Trinidad and Tobago are facing, I believe solutions should come from a place of peace and mediation and from fundamental changes in the delivery of curriculum as well as a transformation of the curriculum itself. I am currently a teacher, finalising ideas for my own PhD proposal. I look forward to hearing from you.
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I am so late to respond. Im so sorry. send me your email and let us stay in touch please.
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Briony. sorry for delay. what is your email address? let’s communicate that way.
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I really respect and enjoy your work -many thanks!
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Thanks so much. what do you work on?
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Hey hakim. Saw you in guyana doing a presentation. Nice, brilliant . Stay in touch
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thanks so much. Let us stay in touch indeed
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