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What's New on the Web Site?

• November 24, 2008 - The Discipline That Restores web site has been updated and expanded in celebration of the publication of Ron and Roxanne Claassen's book Discipline that Restores.
• November 2008 - The PACS events photo page becomes active as more PACS people offer photos.
• Fall 2008 - PACS now occupies three houses on Townsend Avenue. 4882 E. Townsend, Townsend 8, houses our administrator, the faculty, Mediation Services and Mediation Associates. Townsend 9 houses Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, the campus mediation center and three conference rooms. Townsend 10, the newest addition, houses Circles of Support and Accountability, the Restorative Justice Initiative, and the Fresno office of West Coast Mennonite Central Committee.

• February 11, 2007 - Our Web site has weathered the storm of university Web site change and is fully accessible. We invite you to let us know if something doesn't work. The site has several different page styles, depending on their age and update frequency.

• Movember 25, 2006 - The Fresno.edu web site redesign had made some of our pages inaccessible. The Restorative Justice Conference Archives are now accessible again. 12th Restorative Justice Conference materials moved to this page.

• November 6, 2006 - Photos from the 12th Restorative Justice Conference posted on the photos page.

• September 15, 2006 - 2006 Restorative Justice Conference brochure published.

• September 25, 2005 - Materials relating to the just-concluded 11th Restorative Justice Conference are added to the conference archive site at http://peace.fresno.edu/rjp/archive.php

• September 1, 2005 - The university has reorganized into four discipline-based schools. The PACS academic programs are now located in the School of Humanities, Religion and Social Science. Information on PACS programs, academic and otherwise, continues to be found at http://peace.fresno.edu. Duane Ruth-Heffelbower becomes director of graduate academic programs for PACS with Larry Dunn coordinating undergraduate academics.

• May 26, 2005 - New information on the next Restorative Justice Conference posted to http://peace.fresno.edu/rjp/

• May 21, 2005 - PACS director Ron Claassen receives the Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

• September 24, 2004 - Corrected version of Ron Claassen's article "Two Useful Models for Implementing Restorative Justice" ACResolution v.3, n.4, Summer 2004. The Four Options model was incorrectly printed in the magazine. Roxanne Classen's article "New Approaches to Classroom Discipline" is included in this reprint.

• July 20, 2004 - FPU and San Joaquin College of Law announce a cooperative program allowing students to simultaneously earn the SJCL J.D. degree and the FPU M.A. in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. View the SJCL announcement.

• June 6, 2004 - Dalton Reimer reports on his work in India. Read Dalton's report

• January 25, 2004 - Ron Claassen's trip to Thailand and Duane Ruth-Heffelbower's trip to Pakistan are reported on our international activities page.

• January 2004 - The PACS Web site is transitioning from shtml to php pages. If you look at a page with a .shtml extension on the URL, you are looking at an older, perhaps out of date page. If the page ends in .php you have the current version. The first level transition is complete and lower levels are being updated regularly. You should fill in the Change Detection box above to receive email notices of changes to this page.

• September 24, 2003 - Building a Culture of Peace web page created.

• September 4, 2003 - Restorative Justice Conference brochure published to the Web site

• August 26, 2003 - Report on a church leadership and conflict training in the Philippines

• April 30, 2003- PACS graduate Douglas Noll publishes Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict as a law school textbook. The book is available through the PACS Bookshop.

• April 24, 2003 - FPU Graduate Review has articles on PACS international and local activities

• March 31, 2003 - KSEE channel 24 report on FPU response to war aired March 17, 2003 now available at http://peace.fresno.edu/war/

• March 25, 2003 - Ron Claassen's paper "A Peacemaking Model: A Biblical Perspective" published to the web site.

• PACS international education program announced.

• January 27, 2003 - New web page published: Responding to War, resources for individuals and group leaders working on a response to war. This page will continue to grow.

• January 14, 2003 - Classroom Conflict radio spot aired throughout the Fresno area (947k MP3)

• January 5, 2003 - Israel Trip Report by Ron Claassen. Ron was invited to be one of two guest speakers for the First Restorative Justice Conference in Israel on May 1 and 2, 2002. This is a report of his trip and the conference.

• December 15, 2002 - Ron Claassen article "A Peacemaking Model" published to the web site. Developed through victim offender reconciliation work, Ron shows how the Peacemaking Model can guide efforts at reconciliation.

• December 13, 2002 - PACS event photos page begun.

• July 19, 2002 - PACS program description video available on the web.

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• August 13, 1996 -- This page created.

• February 1996 -- PACS goes online at Peacemaking.com in advance of Fresno Pacific's server going online.

A history of the World Wide Web to June 1995.