Posts Tagged ‘Restorative Justice’

Rev. Ken Carter, District Superintendent of the Waynesville District in North Carolina, recently led a study of “The Journey: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restorative Justice” at the Western North Carolina United Methodist Women’s School of Christian Mission. He reflected on the experience on his blog.

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.

The 2011 Evans Lectureship “Re-visioning Justice” Revisioning Justice, the Second Evans Lectureship, will be held at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center in western North Carolina on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2011. Professor Howard Zehr, of Eastern Mennonite University, will be speaking and leading workshops on issues of restorative justice, criminal justice [...]

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

The 2011 School of Christian Mission book is now available for purchase at the United Methodist Women’s online store. Written by Stephanie Hixon and Thomas Porter of JustPeace, the study shows us the redemptive power of forgiveness: forgiveness for the victim, the perpetrator, and the entire community.

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. [...]