Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: human rights

'In Oakland, a pioneering building called Restore Oakland, completed in 2019, approaches a solution to mass incarceration through the progressive philosophies of restorative justice and restorative economics. Restore Oakland is jointly owned by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a restorative justice non-profit, and Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, an organization working toward better wages and conditions in the restaurant industry. It also provides space for Causa Justa/Just Cause, a tenant advocacy and housing rights organization; La Cocina, an incubator for low-income food entrepreneurs; the nonprofit Restorative Justice for Oakland; and Community Works West, an organization that works with formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.'

With Restore Oakland, architect Deanna Van Buren wagers we’ve got a fighting chance.

'Restorative justice is a broad term and is used in this report to capture what the literature describes using a variety of terms, including “restorative practices,” “restorative approaches,” and similar language. The report describes restorative justice as encompassing “a growing social movement to institutionalize non-punitive, relationship-centered approaches for avoiding and addressing harm, responding to violations of legal and human rights, and collaboratively solving problems.”'

This report summarizes information from a comprehensive review of the literature on restorative justice in U.S. schools.

'Her campaign website provides an extensive list of priorities. “As its mission, the U.S. Department of Peace will; hold peace as an organizing principle; promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights; coordinate restorative justice programs; address white supremacy; strengthen nonmilitary means of peacemaking; work to prevent armed conflict; address the epidemic of gun violence; develop new structures of nonviolent dispute resolution; and proactively and systematically promote national and international conflict prevention, mediation, and resolution. In short, we must wage peace.” '

The secretary of peace would sit in on the National Security Council, and be empowered to coordinate with numerous other departments, including the State, Defense, Justice, Education, and Agriculture.

'Restorative justice (RJ) is a multi-layered concept that does not easily lend itself to a universal definition. Although the terms restorative practice, restorative approaches or restorative measures are used in the international community, in this Canadian study the term RJ is used to refer to the philosophical approach that views harm as a violation of people and relationships rather than as a violation of rules or laws. RJ is a growing social movement – globally and in Canada – that practices peaceful, constructive approaches to violations of legal and human rights and is “about learning to live in a better relationship with oneself and others”. The centrality of relationships makes RJ relevant not only to the justice system, but to most social organizations, including schools.'

(2019). A Missing Piece: Embedding Restorative Justice and Relational Pedagogy into the Teacher Education Classroom. The New Educator: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 246-267.

'RJ is a growing social movement – globally and in Canada – that practices peaceful, constructive approaches to violations of legal and human rights. Yet, there is little understanding for how to introduce RJ to teachers so that they are supported to tap into this deeper potential in a sustainable manner. '

(2019). A Missing Piece: Embedding Restorative Justice and Relational Pedagogy into the Teacher Education Classroom. The New Educator. Ahead of Print.

'Since the collapse of the Taliban regime, the US alone has spent well over a billion dollars rebuilding and reforming Afghanistan’s state justice sector, influenced by the Western system of retributive justice. But the failure to engage with the Afghanistan’s own tradition of restorative justice and to understand its multiplicity of justice providers has undermined true reform.'

In countries where people access different justice providers, a hybrid model could pull them together and ensure better oversight and human rights.

'Phillips helped pave the way for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, which aimed to bring restorative justice to victims and perpetrators of human rights abuses under Apartheid, the nation's strict system of racial segregation that came to an end in the early 1990s.'

Beyond Conflict founder Tim Phillips speaks as part of the SNF Agora Institute's "Talking (and Listening) Across Divides" conference Wednesday