Restorative Justice Archives - Restore Commons

Tag Archives: Restorative Justice

Order By

Format

Ensuring Public Safety in a Sustainable Way

“How do we deal with people who have committed crime to minimize their recidivism? How do...

Restorative Practices for Turbulent Times

What can happen when we move justice out of the law system and into neighborhoods and communities? Restorative practices are being put into action beyond justice systems into schools and institutions, changing the conversation from fault and punishment to looking at who has been harmed, how they were harmed and whose obligation it is to repair that harm. In this conversation, community and organizational psychologist Thom Allena shares insight and experiences from his work with restorative justice. Listen:

Integrative Law: A Legal System that Builds Relationships

Atty Kim Wright

Kim Wright talks with Peter Block , John McKnight and guest caller Edgar Cahn about being an Integrative Lawyer and her practice of Restorative Justice: an alternative way of dealing with crimes and taking a holistic approach that factors in emotions of both parties. She speaks about how Restorative Justice is not well received by many who practice law, and touches on how it started with Nelson Mandela. Kim also explains Therapeutic Jurisprudence: a way to create solutions rather than unhelpful punishments, and discusses the related practice of Unitive Justice.

Traditional Justice

Mike Butler discusses the differences of the interworking of two types of patriarchal systems: local government and criminal justice.

Source: TalkShoe

Victim Involvement

Mike Butler elaborates on how restorative justice would change a criminal victim’s role in our society and in our system.

Source: TalkShoe

Nurturing a New Narrative

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the role of the church in shifting from a consumerist...

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

unknown

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

Site is using a trial version of the theme. Please enter your purchase code in theme settings to activate it or purchase this wordpress theme here