Creating Safe Schools with Classroom Meetings
by Knight, Lorrie
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Rochester, NY: Finger Lakes Restorative Justice Center Lorrie Knight is Dean of Students for Albion Central School District in Orleans County. Her primary responsibility is the discipline of 1200 students. Here is her story about the use of circles with children in public...
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Unveiling Women as Pillars of Peace Peace Building in Communities Fractured by Conflict in Kenya. An Interim Report.
by Juma, Monica Kathina
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) New York: Management Development and Governance Division, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Program This monograph presents the experiences of peace workers, called hereafter “pillars of peace,â€? in initiating and nurturing peace in...
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Women in Peacebuilding Resource and Training Manual
by Schirch, Lisa.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) West African Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Downloaded 9 Jan 2006. The manual is not the same as other peacebuilding manuals. It covers traditional peacebuilding topics with a specific focus throughout on how being...
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Voices of Local Peace Initiatives: Kenya Peace and Development Network, Wajir Peace and Development Committee, National Council of Churches of Kenya, and Amani People’s Theatre
by Jenner, Janice
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Cambridge, MA: Reflecting on Peace Practice Project. This case study looks at four different Kenyan peace groups: Amani Peoples Theatre (APT), the Peace and Rehabilitation Project of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), Kenya Peace and Development Network...
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Meeting the Challenges of Introducing Victim-Offender Mediation in Central and Eastern Europe
by Fellegi, Borbála
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Final Report of the AGIS Project JAI/2003/AGIS/088. Leuven, Belgium: European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. v.z.w. This report summarises the results of the AGIS project on meeting challenges of introducing victim-offender mediation in Central and...
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Peace First, Justice Later: Traditional Justice in Northern Uganda
by Hovil, Lucy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Refugee Law Project Working Paper No. 17. Kampala, Uganda: Refugee Law Project The following report seeks to engage in the current debate on issues of post-conflict reconstruction and appropriate mechanisms of justice within northern Uganda. It begins by outlining both the goals...
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Final Reflections on the Spirit of Justice
by Marshall, Christopher D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presentation to the VUW Institute of Policy Studies Symposium: Towards a Restorative Society, October 10-11 2005. In this respect I find it helpful to think of justice, like love, as being a generic or inclusive concept embracing a wide variety of applications. It is not a...
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Criminal Offence Victims Act 1995.
by Queensland Parliament
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Queensland Parliament. An Act to establish principles of justice for victims of criminal offences, and to make provision for the payment of compensation to them....
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Restorative Approaches in Societies Emerging from Conflict
by Alley, Roderic
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presentation to the VUW Institute of Policy Studies Symposium: Towards a Restorative Society, October 10-11 2005. In Conclusion, lack of long tem resource commitments by the international community leaves many rehabilitation programmes as little more than crisis management...
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Restorative practices in schools: Far-reaching implications.
by Drewery, Wendy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presentation to the VUW Institute of Policy Studies Symposium: Towards a Restorative Society, October 10-11 2005. The use of certain practices derived from restorative justice has recently been gaining popularity and inciting keen interest in the education community. Practices...
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The Family Violence (Specialist) Court
by Recordon, Phil
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presentation to the VUW Institute of Policy Studies Symposium: Towards a Restorative Society, October 10-11 2005. Restorative Justice, Therapeutic jurisprudence, the Karina Williams approach to family violence are, for me, so obviously right there can be no quarrel with any of...
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Te Ao Po – Te Ao Marama: New Zealand Character: The Light Side and the Dark
by Ritchie, James
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Presentation to the VUW Institute of Policy Studies Symposium: Towards a Restorative Society, October 10-11 2005. As an applied social psychologist, with ethnological interests, my whole career has been concerned with questions of values, character and culture in a bicultural...
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Restorative justice is viable prison alternative
by Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Jefferson City, MO:Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission. Downloaded 06 January 2006 One of the charges of the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission is to explore real alternatives to imprisonment and report those findings to the Governor and General Assembly. This is a...
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Interfaces between Formal and Informal Justice Systems to Strengthen Access to Justice by Disadvantaged People
by Dinnen, Sinclair
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the PRACTICE IN ACTION Workshop UNDP Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative.Ahungala, Sri Lanka, 19-21 November 2003 Over the past four years I have undertaken extensive policy work in PNG directed at law and justice reform. A significant part of this has...
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Gacaca: ADR as a Response to Rwanda Genocide
by Connolly, Shannon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Synergy. 3(1). Online Journal. From April 1994 to June 1994 terror reigned throughout the tiny country of Rwanda, Africa. During those 100 days, approximately 1 million minority Tutsi were summarily massacred by the dominant Hutus in the Rwandan genocide. How does a country...
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