Archive for June, 2009

Is there justice in restorative?

June 29th, 2009 – by Howard Zehr (category: Peacebuilding, Restorative Justice)

Following the recent 2nd Annual Conference of Restorative Justice Practices International I had the privilege of spending several days on Salt Spring Island off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia, with three experienced restorative justice practitioners who are former students of mine – Catherine Bargen, Aaron Lyons and Matthew Hartman.  Our conversations were wide-ranging while [...]

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What do restorative justice and revenge have in common?

June 11th, 2009 – by Howard Zehr (category: Restorative Justice)

When I wrote Changing Lenses in the 1980s, I positioned the concepts of retributive and restorative justice as opposites.  Later, in The Little Book of Restorative Justice, I acknowledged that this was not always helpful and, in fact, masked some important commonalities between their underling assumptions.   Now I want to go further and explore the [...]

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