Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: empower

'Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) conducted a National Symposium on Restorative Justice, inviting key stakeholders in the criminal justice system, other interested parties, and experts to share useful ideas and identify essential obstacles in the criminal justice system and its problem solving mechanisms. It is hoped that Restorative Justice can alleviate overcrowding in prisons and congestion in the court system, and effectively reform offenders so that they can return into society. It is hoped that it can empower and help victims, restore their well-being, ensure effective reparations and engage the community in assisting victims and offenders in reintegrating into the community.'

'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?