December 2008 Edition
Investigating Restorative Justice Implementations for Ireland; Using Theatre to Communicate Restorative Justice; Book Review: Restorative justice theory and practice: addressing the discrepancy.; Website of the Month: Escuela de Justicia Comunitaria
Investigating Restorative Justice Implementations for Ireland
In March 2007, Ireland established the National Commission on Restorative Justice to explore implementation in Ireland. To date, the Commission has published an interim report with recommendations and continues its work until mid-year 2009. This article describes the work of the Commission. It is excerpted from a longer article by Martin Haverty, a researcher for the Commission and includes a link to the full-text.
Using Theatre to Communicate Restorative Justice
Inafa’ Maolek Conciliation offers a variety of conflict resolution services in Guam including work place mediation, peer mediation, and restorative justice. It developed the Peace Theatre programme to teach the principles of conflict resolution in an easily understood fashion. In this article, Pat Wolff, executive director of Inafa’ Maolek, briefly describes the use of the restorative justice skit.
Book Review: Restorative justice theory and practice: addressing the discrepancy.
Martin Wright reviews Theo Gavrielides’ book discussing the differences between restorative justice theory and implementation.
Website of the Month: Escuela de Justicia Comunitaria
The Escuela de Justicia Comunitaria (EJC) of the National University of Colombia provides training and research in the area of community conflict resolution. It consists of an interdisciplinary tram of professors, graduates and students from the university. This Spanish language website highlights the work of the team and conflict resolution news from around Latin America.
Job Openings in Restorative Justice
These position descriptions are taken verbatim from announcements received by RJ Online editors in the past month.
