Comments on: Restorative justice and the Gandhian tradition

By: travel world online

travel world online — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:50:10 +0000

Barbara Toews came with Tyrone Werts to Delaware, yesterday, October 24, 2013, and it was a great moment when voices of those concerned with the criminal justice system in Delaware spoke their truth, respectfully, to the officials present in the room, who were amazing, and participated in the exchange. That was different from the environment of Town Hall meetings. I think that restorative justice has a lot to contributive in democracy building. - See more at: http://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2013/10/23/restorative-justice-and-the-gandhian-tradition/#sthash.mBw4Qqq2.dpuf

By: japar

japar — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:53:48 +0000

Your thoughts are very inspiring! “Doing Democracy with Circles: Engaging Communities in Public Planning” by Jennifer Ball, Wayne Caldwell and Kay Pranis, is a very good example on how restorative justice processes could help to attain community governance on issues that matter in democracy. Circle process bring the element of respect, which is the bases for one of the STAR Transforming Historic Harms’ strategies: Connections, which means to speak truth to those who have the power of decision making without being confrontational –to be actually more effective. Barbara Toews came with Tyrone Werts to Delaware, yesterday, October 24, 2013, and it was a great moment when voices of those concerned with the criminal justice system in Delaware spoke their truth, respectfully, to the officials present in the room, who were amazing, and participated in the exchange. That was different from the environment of Town Hall meetings. I think that restorative justice has a lot to contributive in democracy building. http://kutempel.blogspot.com

By: alan

alan — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:13:51 +0000

This is an excellent post i will read more from you in the future. Ghandi has many connections to my country(south Africa) but not many people in my country learnt from his teachings. I think many countries should learn from exceptional heroes from the past and in the future hopefully this will shape us into better people. The current generation is very violent an need to learn what people like Dr king and even our own people like Nelson Mandela fought for.

By: Utah Home Loans

Utah Home Loans — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:19:17 +0000

I dad’s generation grew up with more violence then did I. And I’m raising my son with much less violence then I had. Yet, excluding wars, there is more violence exploited on most media outlets then ever before. Is education the answer? Seems as though society needs to be getting their “fix” somewhere.

By: Charito Calvachi-Mateyko

Charito Calvachi-Mateyko — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:52:55 +0000

By: Brian R. Gumm

Brian R. Gumm — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:16:53 +0000

Thanks for this post, Howard, and to Sujatha as well for helping inform it! It strikes me that points 2 & 3 - swaraj/self-rule and satyayraha/truth-force, respectively - resonate with what I tentatively called here recently an "anarchist" genius to restorative justice. "Anarchist" here being understood as basically a synonym for "radical democracy." Radical democratic movements are by definition concerned with self-rule/governing in as local & participatory a form as you can get it, and that is often itself an implicit or explicit critique (truth-force/telling?) of dominant systems of power and control. If there's something to this resonance, have the radical democratic political dimensions of restorative justice been adequately investigated, Howard? Seems like it would be fertile ground for RJ scholarship...