Posts in the ‘Restorative Justice’ Category

Schools of Christian Mission are taking place across the country this summer to study The Journey: Forgiveness, Restorative Justice and Reconciliation. Find out where a school is taking place near you. The schools are open to everyone.

Relationships matter. Restorative justice reminds us of this web of relationships and suggests principles and practices to create and restore healthy relationships.

Fambul Tok tells the story of healing in post-conflict Sierra Leone through the intimate stories of perpetrators and victims coming together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.

In his book, Redeeming the Wounded, B. Bruce Cook uses his experience as crime victim, correctional chaplain and crime victim counselor to reveal a restorative justice approach for enabling the process of healing the wounds and repairing harm.

This is the tenth and final installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

I believe that restorative justice holds promise in that it helps us think about harm from a wholistic perspective. Along with that promise comes the challenge of knowing how to implement restorative practices in systems that have become entrenched in a vision of justice that is more about rules and laws than about relationships and needs.

We repair harm, by exploring our impacts on others and by using understanding we begin to heal. We tell our stories, and healing leads to forgiveness and reconciliation.

This is the ninth installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

This week I made some presentations on South Africa and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to 8th graders at the nearby Waynesville Middle School. Most of them are heavily involved in the Peacejam Program…

Scriptural principles in the New Testament have much to say not only about the value of settling disputes outside of court, but also about the spiritual ramifications that are inherent in how we respond to wrongs.