Betty Vos , a social work practitioner for over thirty years, served as assistant professor of social work at Valparaiso University and the University of Utah before joining the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking , where she is a part-time senior research associate. Her recent research and publications have focused on restorative justice dialogue in bias-motivated crimes, victim offender dialogue in serious and violent crime, juvenile victim offender mediation, and peacemaking circles.