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'From the streets of Minneapolis, the aboriginal lands of Australia, and the killing fields of Cambodia come the powerful stories of three people who had the courage to step out of the haunting, tragic darkness of the past, risking everything to reach the light of their own compassion. RISKING LIGHT is a thought-provoking documentary that explores resilience, and the painful process of moving from grief to compassion and forgiveness. Through the unforgettable stories of Mary Johnson, who grieves a murdered son; Debra Hocking, a victim of government-sanctioned genocide; and Kilong Ung, who survived the terror of the Khmer Rouge, RISKING LIGHT challenges us to examine our own beliefs about forgiveness and ask “What would the world look like if we could learn to forgive one another?”'

'From the streets of Minneapolis, the aboriginal lands of Australia, and the killing fields of Cambodia come the powerful stories of three people who had the courage to step out of the haunting, tragic darkness of the past, risking everything to reach the light of their own compassion. RISKING LIGHT is a thought-provoking documentary that explores resilience, and the painful process of moving from grief to compassion and forgiveness. Through the unforgettable stories of Mary Johnson, who grieves a murdered son; Debra Hocking, a victim of government-sanctioned genocide; and Kilong Ung, who survived the terror of the Khmer Rouge, RISKING LIGHT challenges us to examine our own beliefs about forgiveness and ask “What would the world look like if we could learn to forgive one another?”'

'My kids’ primary school once tried to get students to practice restorative justice by telling them to ‘practice restorative justice’. Yup, that’s what they said. To five-to-12 year olds. Parents were baffled too. Only the teachers who had done a two-day workshop knew what the heck it meant. The restorative justice process itself was okay. Calling it that was the ineffective bit. Likewise, the problem with ‘practicing social distancing’ isn’t the process. It’s the language.'

'Restorative Practices / Community Conferencing Pilot 2002 This report provides an evaluation of a nine month Pilot of Restorative Practices / Community Conferencing in Victorian schools during 2002. The Pilot was designed to support and evaluate the application of restorative practices as a strategy in the management of incidents and in order to reduce the number young people at risk of being alienated from mainstream education. This Pilot provides sufficient evidence to suggest that restorative practices / community conferencing can be a highly effective way to manage incidents in Victorian schools. The experience of the staff, students and parents from 23 government and Catholic schools and from 16 regional support staff involved affirmed results of other reviews in Australia and internationally.'

'This 3-day program is designed for those community, government & non-government agency personnel who are seeking more effective approaches to interventions for serious conflict & antisocial or inappropriate behaviour. This process of community conferencing has application across a range of jurisdictions such as education, police, juvenile & adult justice, corrections, probation, youth & community.'

'Canberra – becoming a restorative city. Final report October 2018 Restorative justice is both a social movement and a particular way of implementing, managing and addressing disputes, conflicts or actions, one that focuses on harm prevention and redress. As such, it does not readily lend itself to change through legislative means. The solution the Council has recommended is to suggest a framework for such change. It recommends, first, the development of a set of ‘restorative values and principles’ to guide all government action towards restorative ends. The report provides a number of examples of such values and principles used internationally. However, these should be a starting point only. The ACT Government should develop a set of restorative values and principles unique to Canberra through community consultation. The Council suggests three models of how this framework might be implemented: '

The provincial government says it recently managed to reduce court backlogs and divert more cases to restorative justice, which also helped reduce the number of people in custody. In an update to its criminal justice modernization strategy, which was announced in March 2018, Justice Minister Cliff Cullen revealed the new figures on Friday. The data shows that the average adult in-custody population fell from 2,400 to 2,105 between the 2017/18 and 2018/19 fiscal years. #RestorativeJustice