Wisconsin Public Television University Place Madison City Channel Presents  Talking Resolution: A Conversation on Violence, Restorative Justice and Human Rights   September 21, 2010 UP 601	 	 cc	first vid >> It's now my great pleasure on	 behalf of the Wisconsin Academy	 of Sciences, Arts and Letters to	 introduce our speakers.	 You will have an opportunity as	 well to question them.	 We hope that you'll wait for the	 mic to be brought to you, just	 so that again, it can be taped	 and everyone will be able to	 hear your questions.	 So, Janine Geske, hardly someone	 that needs an introduction,	 distinguished professor of law	 at Marquette University Law	 School and director of the law	 school's Restorative Justice	 Initiative.	 Janine Geske is a former Supreme	 Court justice, served on the	 Supreme Court from 1993 to 1998.	 She must have had very good	 relationships with her	 colleagues, because there are	 several other justices here	 tonight as well.	 Justice Prosser is up here on	 our right.	 I believe Justice Ann Walsh	 Bradley is here in front of me.	 We welcome you and appreciate	 all the justices that have	 joined us here tonight.	 Thank you.	 Janine has also received so many	 awards and accolades that it's	 difficult to know which ones to	 highlight.	 She has been honored as one of	 the best lawyers in America for	 her work in alternative dispute	 resolution, not just once, but	 year after year.	 To give you an idea of how	 varied her awards can be, in	 2009, she received the Woman of	 Faith Award from the Sisters of	 Divine Savior, the FBI	 Director's Community Award, and	 the Wisconsin Bar Fellows Award	 for recognition for contribution	 to the Bar and the ideals of the	 American Bar Foundation.	 For over ten years, she has	 served as a member of the	 faculty of the National Judicial	 College of Reno, Nevada.	 She frequently teaches at	 judicial legal and community	 conferences on mediation and	 restorative justice, sentencing,	 evidence, the courts,	 spirituality, and work.	 She leads retreats and workshops	 on spirituality in everyday	 life.	 She is a fellow of the American	 Bar Foundation, the Wisconsin	 Bar Foundation, the American	 College of Civil Trial Mediators	 and we're proud to say a fellow	 of the Wisconsin Academy.	 Justice Geske also graduated	 from Beloit College with a	 bachelor of arts degree and a	 master of arts in teaching and	 received her law degree from	 Marquette University Law School.	 So, we'll welcome Janine in just	 one second, after I introduce	 our second panelist this	 evening, conversationalist	 Scott Straus.	 Scott is the associate professor	 of political science and	 international studies, and	 director of the Human Rights	 Initiative at the University of	 Wisconsin-Madison.	 His primary research	 interests include the study of	 genocide, violence, human rights	 and African politics.	 He's the author of the book that	 I held up earlier, "The Order of	 Genocide: Race, Power and War	 in Rwanda."	 With Robert Lyons, he's authored	 "Intimate Enemy: Images and	 Voices of the Rwandan Genocide."	 He is also co-editor	 with Lars Waldorf	 of "Reconstructing Rwanda."	 He has published articles	 related to genocide in a host	 of prestigious magazines	 and journals.	 He's received several grants,	 including one from the Andrew	 Mellon Foundation, the Henry	 Frank Guggenheim Foundation,	 the National Science Foundation,	 and others.	 In 2009, he was awarded the	 William Kiekhofer Distinguished	 teaching award.	 He's a graduate of Dartmouth.	 Professor Straus received	 his PhD from the university	 of California at Berkeley.	 So let's welcome these amazing	 Wisconsin knowledge sharers and	 we'll have a great conversation	 together.	 Thank you.	 (applause)	 	 >> Janine Geske: Thank you.	 It's really a pleasure for me to	 be here for a number of reasons.	 First of all, to see a number	 of my friends.	 My friends from the court and	 also Jerry Hancock, with whom	 I do a fair amount of	 restorative justice in	 Columbia Correctional Institute.	 He's been a good friend for a	 number of years.	 I l