Harry Mika, Ph.D
Sociology
Anspach Hall
305B
(989) 774-2654
mika1h@cmich.edu
Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981
M.A., Michigan State University, 1975
B.A., Michigan State University, 1974
Fellowships and Appointments
New Century Scholar, William J. Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2003
Honorary Professor, School of Law, Queens
University of Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Associate Member, Institute of Criminology and
Criminal Justice, Queens University of Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Fellow, Centre for Studies and Research in
International Law and Relations, Hague Academy of International Law (The
Netherlands), 1984
Postdoctoral Fellowship, "The Sociology of Social
Control," National Institute of Mental Health, Yale University, 1981-82
Teaching Expertise
Alternative dispute resolution
Victims and violence
Juvenile delinquency and youth welfare
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Research Interests
Community-based justice
Peacebuilding
Community development and regeneration
Current projects
Mika specializes in applied research and service
related to community-based justice, community peacebuilding. and community
regeneration. For ten years he has worked intensively on the
development of community-based restorative justice projects in Loyalist and
Republican areas of Northern Ireland that serve as alternatives to
paramilitary punishment, violence, threat and exclusion. He is engaged
in international research on the role of former combatants in community peacebuilding in transitional settings, and is conducting a national study
of community mediation in the US. His recent and forthcoming
publications generally reflect these themes, including consideration of the
methodologies of community peacebuilding and transformative evaluation.
Selected Publications
Reconstructing Justice: Criminology, Human Rights and Transition from
Conflict (with Kieran McEvoy and Kirsten McConnachie). London:
Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2007).
Listening to Victims: A Critique of Restorative Justice Policy and
Practice in the United States (with Mary Achilles, Ellen Halbert, Lorraine
Stutzman Amstutz, and Howard Zehr). Federal Probation, Volume 68,
Number 1 (June 2004).
A Restorative Framework for Community Justice
Practice (with Howard Zehr), in Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn (eds.),
Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. London:
Palgrave (2003).
Evaluation as
Peacebuilding? Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes,
Contemporary Justice Review, Volume 5, Number 4 (2002).
How Can I Evaluate My Work?, in John Paul Lederach and Janice Moomaw
Jenner (eds.), Handbook on International Peacebuilding: Into the Eye
of the Storm. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2002).
Republican Hegemony or Community Ownership?
Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland (with Kieran McEvoy) in
Dermot McFeenan (ed.), Case Studies in Informal Justice. London:
Ashgate (2002).
Guest Editor (with Kieran
McEvoy and Barbara Hudson), "Practice, Performance and Prospects for
Restorative Justice," special issue of The British Journal of
Criminology, Volume 42, Number 3, (2002).
Restorative Justice and the Critique of
Informalism in Northern Ireland (with Kieran McEvoy), The British
Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Number 3, (2002).
Taking Victims and Their Advocate Seriously:
A Listening Project (with Mary Achilles, Ellen Halbert, Lorraine Stutzman
Amstutz, and Howard Zehr). Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee
U.S. (2002).
Conflict, Crime Control,
and the 're'-Construction of State-Community Relations in Northern Ireland
(with Kieran McEvoy and Brian Gormally), in Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin,
and John Muncie (eds.), Crime, Prevention and Community Safety: New
Directions. London: Sage (2002).
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