Mark S. Umbreit is a professor and founding director of the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work. He serves as a fellow of the International Centre for Healing and the Law in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is an internationally recognized practitioner and scholar with more than thirty-three years of experience as a mediator, trainer, researcher, and author of six books and more than 130 articles, book chapters, and monographs in the fields of restorative justice, mediation, and peacemaking. His most recent book, Facing Violence: The Path of Restorative Justice & Dialogue, reports on the first multisite study of victim offender mediation and dialogue in crimes of severe violence, primarily homicide. Umbreit has conducted research, training seminars, and lectures throughout the world. As a practitioner, he specializes in facilitating a dialogue between victims or family survivors of severe violence, primarily homicide, and the offender.