The role of women in conflict resolution: Perspectives from an indigenous system
by Tuso, Hamdesa
June 4, 2015
Source: TMs (photocopy). Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Hamdesa Tuso observes that the concept of conflict resolution through negotiation and mediation has gained considerable attention throughout the world in recent decades, especially in...
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The indigenous processes of conflict resolution of the Oromos of the Horn of Africa: Change and continuity
by Tuso, Hamdesa
June 4, 2015
Source: TMs (photocopy). Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. As interest increases in recent years in more effective mechanisms for managing and resolving social conflicts, many are pursuing studies of indigenous systems of peacemaking. Hamdesa...
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Evaluation of the South Oxnard Challenge Project, 1997-2001
by Turner, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Prepared for the Ventura County Probation Agency. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Amid concerns about rates of juvenile crime, the California Legislature in 1996 enacted legislation establishing challenge grants to foster development of collaborative, integrated approaches...
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The court’s role in strengthening families
by Szramka, Zygmunt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the Children, Young People and Communities: The Future Is in Our Hands conference, held in Launceston, Tasmania, 27-28 March. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. A magistrate in Tasmania, Zygmunt Szramka evaluates Tasmania’s The...
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The spiritual basis of peacemaking
by Steven, Helen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Just Peace? Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium conference, held in Auckland, New Zealand, 24-28 April. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Centre for Justice and Peace Development. In this...
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Religion and international peacemaking
by Smock, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) FPRI Wire 9 (March). This essay by David Smock, director of the Program on Religion and Peacemaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace, is based on his December 6, 2000 Perlmutter Lecture on Ethnic Conflict at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
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Family group conferencing
by Smith, Bill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the Children, Young People and Communities: The Future Is in Our Hands conference, held in Launceston, Tasmania, 27-28 March. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Bill Smith, a manager for Child and Family Services in the Tasmanian...
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At the fork in the road: Trauma healing
by Sider, Nancy Good
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Conciliation Quarterly 20 (Spring). As Nancy Good Sider writes, peacebuilders deal with trauma regularly in their work. They must understand trauma and trauma healing to do their work in assisting others and in dealing with the effects on themselves of the trauma they see in...
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Restorative justice conferencing with hosts: Faith groups providing sanctuary for people endeavouring to make things right
by Schenk, Bruce
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Ontario: Ontario Multifaith Council, Restorative Justice Committee. Bruce Schenk begins this paper with an observation that restorative justice is a grassroots initiative stemming from a community’s desire to make things right for those affected by wrongdoing. In...
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Circle peacemaking
by Rieger, Lisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Alaska Justice Forum 17 (Winter): 1, 6-7. A research team from the Justice Center of the University Alaska (Anchorage) had the opportunity to observe a rural Alaskan community’s implementation of a circle sentencing program over a period of eighteen months. Lisa Rieger...
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That’s gonna leave a mark!
by Reimer, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Mennonite Brethren Herald 41 (April 5): 3-4. Ray of Hope is an interdenominational Christian organization in Ontario, Canada, the mission of which is to demonstrate the love of Christ to those who are disadvantaged, marginalized, or in conflict with the law. In this article,...
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Shame and punishment, democracy and anger
by Pepinsky, Hal.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Red Feather Journal of Postmodern Criminology 8. Downloaded 2 June 2004. Hal Pepinsky grapples with the questions why we in the United States are so punitive in our war on crime and how we can transform that punitiveness into peacemaking. He asserts that shame is the prime...
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Making peace with shame
by Pepinsky, Hal.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Red Feather Journal of Postmodern Criminology 8. Downloaded 2 June 2004. Shame and shaming are much discussed in certain circles as potentially constituting a restorative approach to addressing offending behavior and reintegrating offenders into society. Questioning the...
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Deconstructing restoration: The promise of restorative justice
by Pavlich, George.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Draft of paper presented at the International Conference on Restorative Justice, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany, 1-4 October. TMS (photocopy). Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta. George Pavlich notes the increasing attention restorative justice is receiving...
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Nonviolent action and third party role in Islamic world
by Ozcelik, Sezai
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Conflict Studies Conference: The New Generation of Ideas, held at the University of Massachusetts–Boston, 27-28 October. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The Western paradigm in peace studies has...
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