The history of the Middle East – and especially between Palestinians and Jews – abounds with blame, recrimination, retaliation, and an ever-escalating cycle of mistrust and violence. There is indeed ...

BRATTLEBORO -- With the International Restorative Justice Week just around the corner, local volunteers have once again made plans to celebrate the event. Beginning Nov. 16, the Brattleboro Community ...

Cardinals and bishops attend Pope Francis’ celebration of a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 10, 2021, to open the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of ...

Howard Zehr on his role in restorative justice movements and the philosophies’ indigenous roots. Howard Zehr, often called the “grandfather” of restorative justice, speaks about his role in the ...

Recently, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall justified an execution with language that stopped me in my tracks. ...

Amanda Conant poses for a photo in front of a mural in the gymnasium at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Sept. 18, 2024. Conant is incarcerated, and teaches a ...

Restorative justice (RJ) is an alternative to the isolating, stigmatizing, and traumatizing nature of our punitive criminal justice system. Indigenous and Native nations have practiced restorative ...

In fall 2020, Felicia Miller (COL ’23) began working on a solution for a problem she had identified in Georgetown University’s disciplinary process — a fully punitive system with no opportunities for ...

Is restorative justice a solution to B.C.’s backlogged court system? Can it reduce the overrepresentation of Indigenous ...

The Coachella Valley Unified School District has released its draft LCAP for the 2024-25 school year. The district presented its goals for the next three years at its May 16 meeting. The LCAP, or the ...

In May 2021, the District Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with the Second District Supervisor’s Office, launched a pilot program for Neighborhood Restorative Justice (NRJP) in the city of Goleta, ...

Restorative Justice Practice is slowly gaining ground in Lagos State as an integral part of the criminal justice system and this column urges other states in the country to quickly follow the example.