We are blessed in Canberra’s universities with the leadership of a new generation of restorative justice leaders who are richly experienced health and welfare professionals. Mary Ivec, who has a professional background as a social worker, was last month elected by the Canberra Restorative Community Network to be its first Convenor. This was [...] The post Mary Ivec, Holly Northam, Restorative Health and Indigenous Yarning Circles appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
There is a growing problem of ‘rape culture’ on the campus of the Australian National University. There have been new dimensions of this problem in recent years such as a Facebook group titled ‘ANU Stalkerspace’ which has been the particularly public host of some unpleasant public discussion about women and minorities. The Rape Crisis Centre [...] The post Codie Bell’s quest to transform universities appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
Kerry Clamp’s final chapter of her new volume, Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings , is about a transformative vision for restorative justice as a response to mass victimisation. One way I have argued for transitional justice to become more transformative is for it to become less transitional. In her recent writing, Kerry Clamp has also [...] The post Learning to Scale Up Restorative Justice appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
My co-author and former PhD student, Ray Nickson, who is now Criminal Justice Program Director in the Peace and Conflict Studies Centre of Fresno Pacific University sent me this inspiring news story: Well done 17 year old Sam, well done Bullard High School and Fresno Pacific for such a great innovation in restorative justice healing through [...] The post LGBT bullying and restorative empowerment appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite