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    'Victim-survivors of domestic, family, and sexual violence who participated in restorative justice in the ACT felt safer, better supported, and more in control because of their involvement in the scheme, an Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) evaluation of the ACT’s restorative justice scheme has found.

    “This evaluation found restorative justice provides an important mechanism for persons harmed to seek redress in the aftermath of domestic and family violence and sexual violence victimisation, and for persons responsible to address the factors associated with their offending,” Siobhan Lawler, senior research analyst at the AIC, said.'


    Victim-survivors of violence who participated in restorative justice in the ACT felt safer, better supported, and more in control.

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    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

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    'Restorative discipline practices are a promising solution.
    Based on the philosophy of Restorative Justice, an
    approach used in the criminal legal system that emphasizes
    the reparation of harm between victims and offenders,
    restorative practices (RP) promote the development of
    socio-emotional learning by encouraging self-reflection,
    empathetic listening, and the creation of non-judgmental
    spaces for conflict resolution. '
     

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    This report sets out some of the current uses of restorative justice and restorative practices across England and Wales. In its recommendations, it identifies 9 key suggestions for what more can be done to increase performance and outcomes.

    Prepared by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Restorative Justice, this report is based on written evidence received from 57 services providers, practitioners, national organisations and academics, and from ten oral evidence sessions with key stakeholders and those with lived experience of restorative justice.

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    Calls for action on restorative practice in healthcare

    The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Restorative Justice has published an important and insightful report, Implementing Restorative Practice in Education, Health, and Social Care.

    The report highlights compelling examples of restorative practice in the NHS, but also stresses its implementation is variable and hindered by common obstacles, including lack of funding, insufficient leadership buy-in and the absence of cohesive government strategy.

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    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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    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.

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    '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.'

     

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     WA Commissioner for Equal Opportunity Dr John Byrne spoke at the Restorative Justice - Empowering Victims conference held by the Department of Justice recently.

    Dr Byrne spoke about how increased awareness of sexual harassment had improved workplace responses to victims' allegations.

    He said the #MeToo movement that started over a decade ago has steadily built momentum by publicising inappropriate sexualised behaviour.

    "In my opinion this has had an effect on reducing sexual harassment in the workplace," he said.

    Dr Byrne went on to explain how the Commission's complaint process can provide restorative justice to victims of sexual and racial harassment.

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    More than 5,600 Jamaicans across the island have been equipped with skills in restorative justice (RJ) better enabling them to prevent and manage conflicts.

    Acting Director of the RJ Branch in the Justice Ministry’s Social Justice Division, Saccsha Ebanks, said the RJ facilitators in each parish have been instrumental in the training process.

    “Every day our officers get the chance to participate in the healing of our nation. Every day they guide our clients towards achieving peace and harmony. Being trained in RJ practices enables citizens to prevent conflict and solve them when they arise,” she told JIS News in a recent interview.

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    A new study shows restorative practices are more beneficial than traditional discipline for students. Dr Anjali Adukia from the University of Chicago and executive director Bessie Alcantara of Alternatives Inc. joined WGN Weekend Morning News to share more on their initiative towards restorative justice.
     

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    Through his own work within, and outside, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Father Griffith sees the Catholic faith as not only complementing restorative justice but enhancing it. In the past decade, emerging restorative justice practices local Church leaders and laity have used to guide the archdiocese through pain on a path toward healing have become a model for other groups seeking to do the same.


    “Restorative justice for me starts at home,” Michael Hoffman said. A member of St. Mary of the Woods in Chicago, Hoffman said his primary act of recovery as a clergy abuse survivor happened in 2006.

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    Truth-telling has been key to restoring trust and repairing relationships in post-conflict settings around the world. Historical truth-telling is increasingly seen as an important part of restorative justice in settler-colonial contexts.


    Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.

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    Video: Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need it? • BRAVE NEW FILMS (BNF)

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