Four directors oversee the program. Alongside Hogan, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Community Standards Kate O'Grady, Director of the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual Life Eduardo Pazos, and Stanley F. Druckenmiller Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies Dharni Vasudevan are overseeing the program.
They hope that the new program will, in time, bring change to the College on a broad scale. "We are working to integrate this into the fabric of the Bowdoin community so that it becomes the preferred method for addressing conflict," said O'Grady. "We want it become part of why somebody might want to be at Bowdoin."
Hogan echoed this vision. "If we do this well, it will permeate lots of different areas," she said, from easing roommate misunderstandings to finding solutions to disagreements between colleagues.
PNVCR is multi-pronged, with some efforts meant to address harms and others designed to prevent them. The facilitators offer one-on-one conflict coaching, in which they will consult with managers and others in leadership to improve their communication skills and management strategies.
Additionally, if a rupture occurs on campus or beyond Bowdoin, or disturbance around a broader social issue, community discussions can be organized in response. For its first community circle, on Oct. 1, PNVCR invited students to discuss anonymous speech and social media.
While the program means to help people at every level of the college, in practice, it will be most active with students, since they make up the biggest population on campus. The directors stress that the new practices do not replace Bowdoin's traditional means of addressing violations of the academic or social code.
Conflict Resolution Terms
Restorative justice and conflict resolution practices can, in certain situations, replace more traditional means of applying justice, such as when a body of people or a judge decides a wrongdoing has been committed and metes out a punishment. In these cases, a violator is often removed from the community—most likely, they're sent to jail or expelled from school. Restorative justice, alternatively, is meant to keep people tethered to their community and social groups intact.
Restorative justice — Increasingly common in schools, restorative justice helps offenders acknowledge the impact of their behavior. Facilitators guide them to find ways to repair the damage and hurt they've caused.
Facilitated dialogue — A structured conversation, usually about difficult or sensitive matters, between two or more parties involved in a conflict.
Restorative dialogue — A more structured form of facilitated dialogue with a specific outcome or resolution.
Shuttle negotiation — An indirect form of mediation for parties who can't be together in the same room, due to no-contact orders or because feelings are so heated. Mediators communicate the needs and opinions of the people in dispute through an exchange of letters, for example, which are written and read with facilitators.
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