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Too often when people enter into conflict with an eye on how to
resolve it, manage it or transform it, they loose sight of the
people involved and the desired end. Too often justice and peace
serve as an ideal or some distant shore. We have not yet learned
enough about how these ends can also be the means of restorative
justice and peacebuilding. Drawing on the imaginations of some
leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, this book
identifies components of a justpeace imagination. This imagination
is the basis of justpeace ethics, where the end goal is touched
with each step. This simple little book is designed to help those
struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in an
ethical and transformative way. It offers practical examples of how
analysis, intervention and evaluation of peacebuilding and
restorative justice can be rooted in imagination of justpeace
ethics.
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Justice as Sanctuary (Paperback)
Herman Bianchi; Foreword by Jarem Sawatsky, Harold Pepinsky
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R763
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Description: While many in the criminal justice system would agree
that the present punitive system of crime control is ineffective,
unjust, and malevolent, there is little enthusiasm for talk about
reforming the system or for a reexamination of its fundamental
premises. In Justice as Sanctuary, noted Dutch criminologist Herman
Bianchi details a new approach to crime control, one that promises
to reanimate debate and initiate real change. He explores the
cultural and religious roots of the current punitive system in
search of new perspectives that can help create a more just and
effective one. In the ancient Hebrew notion of tsedeka ("justice"
or "righteousness"), Bianchi finds the inspiration for a new model
of crime control based on conflict resolution rather than
punishment. Because so many feel alienated from the criminal
justice system, he argues for new procedures that will enable
people to experience law as supportive of their lives and their
social interactions. To complement the current punitive system,
Bianchi proposes a system that provides victims and offenders a
chance to resolve their conflicts and offers them the opportunity
to reach non-punitive systems. By incorporating the concept of
liability, Bianchi's model returns to offenders the responsibility
for their acts while providing an active legal role for the victims
of crime. It adapts structures and models from civil and labor law
for conflict resolution of nonviolent crimes, and in the case of
violent crimes, and in the case of violent crimes, proposes the
creation of special "sanctuaries" that would protect the public
while making it possible to effect true justice. Startling in its
implications, Bianchi's system is not a utopian dream, but a
carefully considered set of proposals that could be acted upon
today. About the Contributor(s): Herman Bianchi was former
Professor of Criminology and former Dean of the Law School of the
Free University of Amsterdam.
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Justpeace Ethics (Hardcover)
Jarem Sawatsky; Foreword by Howard Zehr
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R782
R635
Discovery Miles 6 350
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Description: People too often enter into conflict with an eye on
how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of
the people involved and the end desired. Justice and peace too
often serve as abstract ideals or distant shores. We have not yet
learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of
conflict resolution. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading
peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics
identifies components of a justpeace imagination--the basis of an
alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In
this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps
those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in
both just and peaceful ways. He offers practical examples of how
analysis, intervention, and evaluation can be rooted in a justpeace
imagination. Endorsements: With wisdom and sensitivity, Justpeace
Ethics explores how justice and peace become one. There is genius
in the way it holds together diverging values: interconnectedness
and individual uniqueness, immediate care and long-term thinking,
change and humility, needs-focused action and nonviolence,
empowerment and responsibility. In such an ethic, life is sacred,
relationships are central, and justice is beautiful. A must read
for those who long for a better world. - John Derksen Conflict
Resolution Studies Menno Simons College Winnipeg, Canada This book
is an enormously valuable contribution to thinking about doing
justice and building peace. . . . Justpeace Ethics provides an
immensely practical guide to those seeking to build peace and
justice. At the same time, it is anything but a simple 'how to'
book. Rather, the patient reader is rewarded with an account of the
values of restorative justice and peacebuilding that is deeply
sophisticated, philosophically profound, and rooted in awareness of
the complexity of thinking and acting ethically. -Professor Gerry
Johnstone, author of Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values, Debates
This book provides a fresh and provocative perspective on the
intersection of restorative justice and conflict transformation. .
. . This is a must-read for conflict resolution academics and
practitioners. -Neil Funk-Unrau, Conflict Resolution Studies, Menno
Simons College, Canadian Mennonite University About the
Contributor(s): Jarem Sawatsky is Assistant Professor of Peace and
Conflict Transformation Studies, Canadian Mennonite University.
What is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like?
In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing
justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including
Hollow Water - an Aboriginal and Metis community in Canada renowned
for their holistic healing work in the face of 80 per cent sexual
abuse rates; the Iona Community - a dispersed Christian ecumenical
community in Scotland known for their work towards peace, healing
and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of
worship; and Plum Village - a Vietnamese initiated Buddhist
community in southern France, and home to Nobel Peace Prize
nominated author, Thich Nhat Hanh. These case studies record a
search for the kind of social, structural, and spiritual
relationships necessary to sustain a healing view of justice.
Through comparing cases, Sawatsky identifies the common patterns,
themes, and imagination which these communities share. These
commonalities among those that practice healing justice are then
examined for their implications for wider society, particularly for
restorative justice and criminal justice. This innovative book is
accessible to those new to the topic, while at the same time being
beneficial to experienced researchers, and will appeal
internationally to practitioners, students, and anyone interested
in restorative justice, law, peace building, and religious studies.
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