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December 21, 2016
Source: Paper accepted for publication with the International Journal of Servant Leadership, July 2017. Emerging research within organizational leadership and transitional justice disciplines are recognizing the role of forgiveness and reconciliation as a critical competence both for...
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5 steps to use restorative justice circles for bully behavior
February 3, 2016
This post is going to offer 5 clear steps to utilize in addressing bully behavior using Restorative Justice Circles….Step 1) Use Circles as a process to build community before using to repair harm…. 2) Use Circles with a capital C…. To address something as crucial as bully...
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ECOR European Conference: European Communities of Restoration in Prisons and as Alternatives to Prison
January 12, 2016
The ECOR conference will take place in Stuttgart/Leonberg (Germany) from February 10th – 12th, 2016. The EU-Project ECOR deals with the exchange of best practices and the development of good examples for running wings in prisons or as alternative to prisons. The methodology is based on...
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Editorial: Discipline is delicate balance for Fresno Unified
December 21, 2015
There are no easy answers or magical presciptions for finding the right balance on student discipline. It requires extensive thought, thorough research and sincere collaboration by school leaders, teachers and the students themselves. But finding the right balance should be at the top of the...
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Restorative justice can be life-changing – but it’s under threat
December 18, 2015
…the Ministry of Justice has allocated £29m to police and crime commissioners in the last two years to set up restorative justice services across the country. And yet it’s not working. Money has bought superb training for facilitators and practitioners, and much greater...
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Restorative justice gains momentum on college campuses
December 15, 2015
As the practice of restorative justice gains momentum within higher education, 35 representatives of colleges and universities from across the country gathered at Skidmore College to take a closer look at this growing movement. The group attended a three-day training program, Nov. 11-13,...
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A new approach to conflict, a new initiative at Bates: Mediation and Restorative Justice Fellows
December 15, 2015
….Imagine you are woken up at 3 am by one of your floormates for the fourth time this week. Recently, he has been drinking more than usual and has been disruptive almost every night. The following morning you find vomit in the bathroom as well as a hole near your door. The traditional...
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New restorative justice court planned for Winnipeg’s North End
December 15, 2015
Nancy Fazenda is a Crown attorney who has recently been tapped to become Crown prosecutor for the new court – part of Manitoba’s newly minted restorative justice strategy. “The North End does have some complex criminal justice system issues,” Fazenda said Monday....
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Meeting murderer persuaded David Masters a career in probation service was for him
December 7, 2015
A meeting with a former paramilitary and convicted murderer in Northern Ireland gave probation service officer David Masters his first insight into the power of restorative justice and persuaded him that a career in probation was for him…. Prior to joining Wales CRC’s Swansea...
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Is There a Right Kind of School Discipline?
December 7, 2015
Over the past decade, particularly the last few years, the trend in school discipline has been toward restorative justice—which emphasizesauthentic dialogue, mutual understanding, and communal responsibility—and away from “zero tolerance,”...
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Justice reinvestment
December 7, 2015
The cost of jailing is about $27,000 per inmate per year. The cost of drug, behavioral and mental health treatment averages about $4,500 per year. About 20 percent of all Americans and almost two-thirds of inmates have some kind of mental health problems. Half of those needing behavioral or...
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School violence prevention project to focus on mobile apps, peer dynamics
December 7, 2015
from the release by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: In a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, experts on youth violence, bullying and school climate issues in Illinois and Oregon are teaming up to develop a comprehensive school safety intervention that will use mobile...
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Seeking alternatives to violence in Back of the Yards
October 27, 2015
from the article by Daisy Contreras in the Chicago Reporter: Even though he grew up under a dictatorship in Chile, Brother Juan Acuña says he had not been exposed to the levels of violence he sees regularly in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. “I never saw a lot of people...
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Watch this Webinar: What is Restorative Justice?
October 26, 2015
Restorative justice is a paradigm that is distinct from criminal justice. Rather than asking traditional questions like “What law or rule was broken?;” Who broke it?;” and “What consequences or punishment do they deserve?;” restorative justice asks “Who has...
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Dr. John Bailie’s Inaugural Address as President of IIRP
October 26, 2015
The power of restorative practices lies in the fact that the essential truths that it promotes call out to what is best in each of us. No matter who we are or where we were born, we all need strong relationships, families and communities, as well as workplace interactions in which we find...
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