Restorative Justice Practices
Have you or someone
you know ever been harmed by another?
What is the process
to involve participants to “repair the harm”?
“For
informal justice to be restorative justice, it has to be about restoring
victims, restoring offenders, and restoring communities.” J. Braithwaite
Following questions developed by International
Institute for RESTORATIVE PRACTICES iirp.edu
Restorative
Questions I: of responsible person: To
respond to challenging behavior
What happened?
What were you thinking of at the time?
What have you thought about since?
Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?
What do you think you need to do to make things right?
Restorative
Questions II: of affected person: To help those harmed by other’s actions
What did you think when you realized what had happened?
What impact has this incident had on you and others?
What has been the hardest thing for you?
What do you think needs to happen to make things right? Restorative Works.net
Restorative
Justice Practice is "peace
building" instead of "peacemaking,” conflict
"transformation" rather than conflict "resolution." Slogan: “Conflict is opportunity;
don’t waste it.”
Howard Zehr shares "Restorative Justice Three's":
3 assumptions
underlie restorative practice:
* When people and relationships are
harmed, needs are created.
* The needs created by harms lead
to obligations.
* The obligation is to heal and
“put right” the harms; this is a just response.
3 principles
of restorative practice reflect these assumptions. A just response:
*
acknowledges and repairs the harm
caused by, and revealed by, wrongdoing (restoration);
*
encourages appropriate
responsibility for addressing needs and repairing the harm
(accountability);
*
involves those impacted,
including the community, in the resolution (engagement).
3 underlying
values provide the foundation:
* Respect
*
Responsibility
*
Relationship
3 questions are central
to restorative practices:
*Who has
been hurt?
*What are
their needs?
*Who has the
obligation to address the needs, to put right the harms, to restore
relationships?
(As opposed
to: What rules were broken? Who did it?
What do they deserve?)
3 stakeholder
groups should be considered &/or involved:
*those who
have been harmed and their families
*those who
have caused harm and their families
*community
3 aspirations
guide restorative practices: the desire to live in right relationship:
*with one
another
*with the
creation
*with the
Creator
True peace
requires us not to just make peace by ending conflicts but to build an
infrastructure for peace.
Individual and
Community Safety is first
Howard
Zehr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Little Book of Restorative Justice (The Little Books of
Justice & Peacebuilding)
Children Full of Life - Important Documentary.. Very ...► 40:03► 40:03
4th grade class
in a primary school in Kanazawa, Japan
*Restorative Practices: W Philadelphia HS: Principal Saliyah Cruz
W
Philadelphia HS was named a “persistently dangerous school” for
violence/crime. After Restorative
Practices were implemented, students realized they had a voice; they had
ownership of the school atmosphere.
(9:03 min. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HatSl1lu_PM Enhancing
Respectfulness Through Restorative Practices | CPI
7:31 min. To curb conflict, a
Colorado high school replaces punishment with
conversation www.safersanerschools.org
Restorative Welcome and Reentry Circle - YouTube ► 14:00► 14:00 *RJ
in school settings: UK site: http://www.transformingconflict.org/