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Book Review: Breaking Spears & Mending Hearts: Peacemakers & Restorative Justice in Bougainville

Stollenwerk, Daniel J.
June 4, 2015

Source: (2007) Restorative Justice Online. August 2007 Edition.

Breaking Spears & Mending Hearts tells the story of civil war violence in the Melanesian island of Bougainville and the rediscovery of peacemaking mechanisms used to overcome such violence.

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