Modeling the effects of racial threat on punitive and restorative school discipline practices.
by Payne, Allison Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Criminology. 48(4):1019-1062. It is clear that schools are mirroring the criminal justice system by becoming harsher toward student misbehavior despite decreases in delinquency. Moreover, Black students consistently are disciplined more frequently and more severely than others...
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Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) Ottawa Site.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The Well. The Church Council on Justice and Corrections. Fall 2010. Note from the editor: A number of people wonder about CoSA and if it really is a positive program that belongs in the community. I asked the Ottawa site for CoSA how well they were doing and received big smiles...
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Churches and restorative justice: pushing the edge.
by Berzins, Lorraine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The Well. The Church Council on Justice and Corrections. Fall 2010. Since 1974, the Church Council on Justice and Corrections (CCJC) has been the Churches’ voice of criminal justice experience and research in Canada. It was established by 11 denominations to examine the...
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Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset.
by Olsen, Tricia D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Peace Research, 47(6):803-809. This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970—2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article...
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Peace agreements or pieces of paper? The impact of UNSC Resolution 1325 on peace processes and their agreements.
by Bell, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 59:941-980. On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of...
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Future directions in Catholic peacebuilding.
by Schreiter, Robert J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 421-448. In the first chapter of this volume Scott Appleby raised these questions: why should the Catholic Church be interested in peacebuilding,...
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Stories of solidarity. The challenge of Catholic peacebuilding.
by O'Brien, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 398-420. This chapter, written by an American church historian, pays particular attention to issues in ecclesial self-understanding as they...
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A practical theology of healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
by Schreiter, Robert J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 366-397. This chapter outlines a practical theology of three important elements in Catholic peacebuilding: healing, forgiveness, and...
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Peacebuilding and reconciliation. Interreligious dialogue and Catholic spirituality.
by Phan, Peter C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 332-365. This chapter focuses on how dialogue between the Catholic church and other religions can contribute to peacebuilding and reconciliation....
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A theology for peacebuilding.
by Cahill, Lisa Sowle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 300-331. This chapter develops a theology of peacebuilding around five touchstones: evil, creation, salvation in Christ, the Trinity, and church....
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Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching.
by Himes, Kenneth R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 265-299. In this essay I first identify some insights that Catholic social teaching offers as foundational for peacebuilding. The most important...
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Catholic approaches to interreligious peacebuilding. Lessons from Indonesia’s “Sad Years.”
by Michel, Thomas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 240-262. The chapter is in three parts. The first part provides the historical and social-religious background of Indonesia as the stage for...
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The Catholic social imaginary and peacebuilding. Ritual, sacrament, and spirituality.
by Schreiter, Robert J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 221-239. The capacity to imagine peace, that is, to think differently about the conflict situation in order to come to new possibilities that...
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Pursuing truth, reconciliation, and human dignity in South Africa. Lessons for Catholic Peacebuilding.
by Pearson, Peter-John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) In, Robert j. Schreiter, et. al, editors, Peacebuilding: Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 190-220. In what follows I suggest that the use we make of the lessons learned from the TRC constitutes a source of hope for the future. Indeed,...
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