Posts Tagged ‘Restorative Justice’

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.

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.

Tom Porter, Co-Executive Director of JustPeace, shares his personal story and how it led to the start of JustPeace.   From a United Methodist minister/trial attorney to a mediator, to a trip to South Africa and beyond, Tom Porter weaves his story into lessons of restorative justice, forgiveness, ubuntu and the importance of telling stories. [...]

Join churches throughout the United States on February 7th as they spend part or all of their prayer time during their worship service by praying for a fair criminal justice system based on restorative principles.

The General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) of the United Methodist Church recently sponsored an open conversation on “Ministry with the Poor” which was broadcasted live over the internet. Click to read more and watch videos from the event.

359.1.a)   Restorative Justice—A goal for all complaint procedures is Biblical justice or restorative justice, which is a justice  that seeks to repair the harm to people and communities that is created by the breach of trust, to achieve real accountability by making things right insofar as possible, and to bring healing to all that have [...]

“We in the restorative justice community have much to offer victims. I’m convinced, though, that in order to deliver on this we must partner with victim advocacy and support groups.”

This bible study was written by David Wildman, a seminar designer for the Women’s Division’s United Methodist Seminar Program on National and International Affairs, at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York City.