New Practitioner’s Toolkit for Restorative Justice.
by Editor, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online May 2008 Edition. In late 2007, the Restorative Justice Initiative of Southern Africa released its Practice Standards for Restorative Justice. Focused on ensuring quality of service in restorative programmes in both government agencies and...
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New Report Highlights Traditional Courts in Afghanistan.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online May 2008 Edition. A recent Afghanistan Human Development Report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme recommends that the country’s justice system be rebuilt by creating a hybrid system blending traditional conflict resolution...
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Book Review: Restorative Justice and Practices in New Zealand: Towards a Restorative Society.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. April 2008 Edition. Restorative justice provides more than a programme in the criminal justice system. It provides a framework that can be applied to and between societies for resolving conflict and responding to many different...
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New Report Highlights Australia’s Use of FGCs in Child Protection Cases.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. April 2008 Edition. In the child protection arena, family group conferencing (FGC) allows nuclear families, extended family members, and friends discuss concerns about the safety of children and strategies for addressing those. First developed in New...
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Howard League Commission on English Prisons Today.
by Hoyle, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Justice Online. April 2008 Edition. The Howard League Commission on English Prisons Today (Commission) was established in May of 2007 to explore various issues related to prisons and prisoners including the appropriate use of prisons and best use of community...
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Video Review: Facing the Demons
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Restorative Justice Online February 2008 Edition Facing the Demons is the story of a restorative conference held in a murder...
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Book Review: The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Restorative Justice Online February 2008 Edition The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects offers practical advice for developing and facilitating dialogues in a variety of...
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Bridging Modernity and Tradition: The Rule of Law and the Search for Justice.
by Hamidzada, Humayun
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Kabul, Afghanistan: Center for Policy and Human Development Kabul University. Bridging Modernity and Tradition argues that the rule of law in Afghanistan must be widely accepted, enforceable, and consistent with internationally accepted norms of human rights. It suggests that in...
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Traditional Courts Bill.
by Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, Kasper
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Republic of South Africa. To affirm the recognition of the traditional justice system and its values, based on restorative justice and reconciliation; to provide for the structure and functioning of traditional courts in line with constitutional imperatives and values; to...
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Achieving Reconciliation in Lebanon?
by Bloch-Jørgensen, Kasper
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Project for International Development Studies, BA. Roskilde Universitetscenter We wish to examine what the government in Lebanon is doing to achieve reconciliation and national unity between the war-torn populace. Reconciliation and national unity have two different meanings and...
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Report from Singapore: A High School Adopts Restorative Pratices.
by Wachtel, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Restorative Practices E-Forum. March 14. In 2005, Ping Yi Secondary School in Singapore was chosen by the Ministry of Education as one of four pilot schools to receive training and begin using restorative practices (RP). The school is now entering its fourth year of the pilot...
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Community Accountability Programs: Information Package.
by Community Programs Division, John Randolph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Burnaby, British Columbia: Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Ministry of Attorney General are committed to promoting the use of restorative justice approaches in communities across British Columbia. Over...
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The Potential of Talking and the Challenge of Listening.
by Kahane, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Excerpted from The Systems Thinker newsletter, Volume 10, No. 10. Pegasus Communications. In 2000 a group of researchers from the Society for Organizational Learning interviewed members of Visión Guatemala , to try to pinpoint exactly what happened in...
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Restorative Justice.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Issue Sheet Five: Fairer Tasmania Series. Hobart, Australia: Tasmanian Catholic Justice and Peace Commission. Two-page document created by the Tasmanian Catholic Justice and Peace Commission to introduce restorative justice and its use in the Australian state of...
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The Future of the Peacemaking Perspective.
by Whitehead, John T
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) In, John F. Wozniak, et. al, editors. Transformative Justice: Critical and Peacemaking Themes Influenced by Richard Quinney. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 231-250. Peacemaking represents one recent development in criminology. This paper is an effort to assess the current...
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