Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: International

https://www.nationalcenterforrestorativejustice.com/online-courses

'Restorative Justice Asynchronous:

Theory and classroom practices. We believe that RJ is something best practiced in person. However, we know not everyone can join an in-person training, and want to make RJ as accessible to you as possible. This course will cover the definitions and underpinning principles of Restorative Justice; it will also cover a number of restorative practices. These practices include: Relationship Building Circles, Accountability Circles, and a few other in-classroom tools. '

Online Restorative Justice (Practice) training for educators, teachers, principals, and all school staff. Learn how to reduce out of school and out of classroom time. Learn how to engage productively in conflict in classrooms and schools. We provide both practical teaching strategies and strategi

At its heart, restorative justice requires both parties working together to better understand each other’s needs and motivations in order to repair their relationship, find forgiveness, heal the harm done and find a peaceful resolution. This does not mean that perpetrators are absolved with a pardon.

The restorative lens also requires the wider community, who are indirectly impacted by the harm, to come together and offer support for this healing journey while ensuring the underlying needs/grievances that caused such harm are minimised. Likewise, communities engaged in the process learn to replace punishment with healing, hatred with forgiveness. This allows the space required to overcome shame, intimidation and judgement for both victim and offender, while facilitating the restoration of harmed relationships.

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Abstract

Restorative justice has long been positioned as a justice mechanism that prioritises emotion and its expression. It is also unique in its ritual elements, such as the ritualized expression of anger and the symbolic exchange of apology and forgiveness.

This paper draws on insights from research and practice in restorative justice and recent developments in criminology/legal theory and the philosophy of justice to suggest some ways that the broader criminal justice landscape can incorporate elements of successful restorative justice rituals into its practice.

I argue that the unique elements of restorative justice- its ability to harness anger into a deliberative ritual for victims and offenders, its focus on symbolic reparations, and its ability to engender a form of forward-looking forgiveness that promotes civility can provide a framework for rethinking how criminal justice institutions operate.

'Howard Zehr is considered “the grandfather of restorative justice.”

Zehr describes about the four key components:

“Apology may be difficult but the formula is quite simple: an apology requires us to '

1. name and take responsibility for the harm,

2. acknowledge that it was wrong,

3. express our regret for our actions and their effects, and

4. seek to prevent such wrongs in the future.”

The restorative justice framework adds a fifth piece to an apology which involves seeking to repair harm to the extent it is possible.'

Video, Impact vs Intent by Nyanga Uuka

'Schools need to be transformed into communities where everyone belongs, where differences are accepted and membership is unconditional. Schools can and should be places that all students can love. Making this change will require educators to think differently about student behavior and reflect on how they respond to it.

Real discipline should be more than deciding what consequences to use with students; it should always be about learning. So when students break the rules or have trouble, educators need to ask, "How can we help them learn what they need to learn, and how can we meet their needs?"

The answers to those questions should shape both our discipline practices and the type of school that we provide for our children.'

'Connecting individuals building restorative communities on campuses around the world. Restorative universities care about community. That means respectful relationships come first. We work to build these respectful communities in our student body, residence halls, faculty and staff.'

There are many programs which have started at colleges and universities which could, and have, spread to the communities, and could be used by public libraries to mitigate the various battles about books available, displays, and events at the library. Here are some of the resources; most are headed under “Restorative practices”

Here are some foundational texts and authors in the field of restorative practices up to 2021.

Opportunities and Possibilities Paul T. Jackson · November 15, 2023 · Leave a Comment · Freedom to read, and freedom of speech, are often juxtaposed to censorship, plagiarism, copyright infringement, and other limiting systems to value creation. Dealing with these things in the community setting ...

https://www.iirp.edu/about/the-iirp-graduate-school

The International Institute for Restorative Practices (the IIRP), located in Bethlehem, PA, is the world’s first accredited graduate school that specializes in studying the field of restorative practices, providing education, research, and consulting services.

At the heart of restorative practices is the understanding that human beings are instilled with the need to connect and grow with each other. The IIRP supports students and community leaders with the tools they need to transform relationships and effect change within their own lives as well as within public and private K-12 educational institutions, public and private four-year residential colleges and universities, non-governmental agencies (NGOs), and community-based organizations (CBOs). Through strong academic offerings combined with a real-life approach to education, the IIRP helps mend issues and makes resilient and meaningful relationships thrive.

Dedicated to Growing and Teaching the Science of Relationships and Community Master of Science | Graduate Certificate | Professional Development The International Institute for Restorative Practices (the IIRP), located in Bethlehem, PA, is the world’...

'Restorative justice offers those who have been disenfranchised, marginalized, and disempowered a means of recovering agency. The need to respond to the harms that hate speech creates in vulnerable populations is imperative as humanity increasingly spreads messages via social media. New research on survivors of traumatic incidents and those who live with the day-to-day trauma of ambient prejudice demonstrates a need to empower victims of hate speech against its perpetrators.'

How can we prevent retraumatization of vulnerable individuals and enable them to seek redress?

https://www.nationalcenterforrestorativejustice.com/online-courses

'Restorative Justice Asynchronous:

Theory and classroom practices. We believe that RJ is something best practiced in person. However, we know not everyone can join an in-person training, and want to make RJ as accessible to you as possible. This course will cover the definitions and underpinning principles of Restorative Justice; it will also cover a number of restorative practices. These practices include: Relationship Building Circles, Accountability Circles, and a few other in-classroom tools. '

Online Restorative Justice (Practice) training for educators, teachers, principals, and all school staff. Learn how to reduce out of school and out of classroom time. Learn how to engage productively in conflict in classrooms and schools. We provide both practical teaching strategies and strategi

'The important role of justice in energy transition technologies has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, key questions remain about how inequities influence energy transition innovations (ETIs) from their design to their widespread use, which ETIs receive more funding, and who controls ETI research, prototyping and deployment. Here we propose a framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations (CJI) and examine how three tenets of justice (recognition, procedural and distributional justice) influence each level of ETI, including niche, regime and landscape levels. We examine wind energy in Mexico and multiple ETIs in Los Angeles as use cases to show how our CJI framework can help reveal the specific inequities undermining just energy transitions at crucial analytical levels of ETI in practice. Our CJI framework offers a path for promoters, practitioners and underserved communities to target the problems these groups face and create ETIs that better address their specific aspirations, needs and circumstances.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01351-3

'At its heart, restorative justice requires both parties working together to better understand each other’s needs and motivations in order to repair their relationship, find forgiveness, heal the harm done and find a peaceful resolution. This does not mean that perpetrators are absolved with a pardon.'

News and Press Release in English on World about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; published on 28 Sep 2023 by Peace Direct

https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Issues-in-Restorative-Practice/bo...

Contemporary Issues in Restorative Practice explores the processes and techniques used to resolve and/or prevent crime and conflict using restorative principles. Each book in the series addresses a theme within a specific setting and contains a range of pedagogical features on ‘how to’ achieve effective practice. Whilst incorporating a wide range of real-life examples, authors will also ground practice within the established conceptual and theoretical literature and, where appropriate, develop this further. In this way, the series will support both academic and professional development through a synthesis of experiential and evidential knowledge. The series will appeal to practitioners, researchers, scholars, and organisations with an interest in restorative justice and restorative practices.

Routledge & CRC Press Series: Contemporary Issues in Restorative Practice explores the processes and techniques used to resolve and/or prevent crime and conflict using restorative principles