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	<description>Dr. Howard Zehr, Professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University\&#039;s graduate Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, discusses restorative justice issues, reflects on other issues from a restorative justice perspective and dialogues with others around justice issues from a restorative perspective.</description>
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		<title>Where will we find justice for Trayvon Martin?</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2012/04/04/where-will-we-find-justice-for-trayvon-martin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an invited guest post by my friend, colleague and fellow Morehouse College grad, David Anderson Hooker. I have good news and bad news for the family and supporters of Trayvon Martin: The ‘justice’ you seek is not in the system from which you seek it!  If this sounds like a Jedi mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of labels</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2012/03/12/beware-of-labels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commutation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life sentence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with a friend of some 20 years.  Tyrone Werts is a wise man, a leader, an inspiration to many, who has spent years organizing and helping to sustain others.  He has long been actively engaged in efforts to reduce violence in society. Tyrone Werts, early 1990s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restorative justice principles and indicators</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/12/29/restorative-justice-principles-and-indicators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peacebuilding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[principled practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restorative justice continuum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a response to earlier blog entries, Jon Kidde developed an RJ continuum and set of principles or indicators.  With his permission, I am posting them as a guest entry.   Jon welcomes feedback on these. To see a larger version of the continuum, click here. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: principles and indicators Engagement Involve those impacted/affected, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good and bad victims?</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/11/29/good-and-bad-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/11/29/good-and-bad-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is a victim of crime who values restorative justice welcome in the restorative justice community only if s/he &#8220;works for&#8221; forgiveness? How is a victim of crime who believes in healing for both victim and offender, but continues to struggle with her/his understanding of justice, supported by restorative justice groups and associations?  Are victims invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A needle for the restorative justice compass</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/09/28/a-needle-for-the-restorative-justice-compass/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/09/28/a-needle-for-the-restorative-justice-compass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post I summarized Dorothy Vaandering&#8217;s concern that without an understanding of the term &#8220;justice,&#8221; restorative justice may be a compass without a needle.  It is important not to lose the justice dimension in restorative approaches, she suggests, but we must not allow our understandings to be unduly limited by concepts such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is restorative justice a compass without a needle?</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/09/14/is-restorative-justice-a-compass-without-a-needle/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/09/14/is-restorative-justice-a-compass-without-a-needle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The field of restorative justice has been characterized by on-going discussions about how to define the term.  Some have argued that we should avoid definitions because of the rigidity they bring.  Others have claimed that ambiguity and uncertainty have led to confusion and bad practice. Many have advised that we drop the term “justice” entirely. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer reading</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/08/03/summer-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/08/03/summer-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peacebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restorative justice conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As is obvious from the gap in my posts, I&#8217;ve been taking a break from my blog this sumer.  However, I will come out of hiding long enough to post a few recent resources. They aren&#8217;t the usual summer beach reading but maybe they will be of interest anyway. Our friends at Community Justice Initiatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget restorative justice</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/06/16/forget-restorative-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/06/16/forget-restorative-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice and meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killing Bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visioning justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog by Aaron Lyons “True justice emerges through conversation” – Howard Zehr “So, what are your thoughts on the killing of Osama Bin Laden?,” a woman inquires almost casually at a spring dinner party. Admittedly, the US military operation in Pakistan occupies the minds of many at this time – but surely this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships matter</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/04/12/relationships-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/04/12/relationships-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peacebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurobiology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent conference on our campus entitled Conversations on Attachment included two prominent scholars working in neuroscience:  Dr. James Coan, a psychologist, and Dr. Daniel Siegel, a psychiatrist.  A few points from their presentations help explain why relationships are so important: Coan: “Our brains are designed to be with other people.”  The “baseline brain” is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restorative or transformative justice?</title>
		<link>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/03/10/restorative-or-transformative-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2011/03/10/restorative-or-transformative-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Zehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structural injustice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is restorative justice sufficiently transformative?  Should the term be “transformative” rather than “restorative” justice?  Are they different phenomena or are they one and the same? This debate has been ongoing since the origin of the field.  When trying to decide on a term in the 1980s, I considered the word transformative but rejected it as [...]]]></description>
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