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Scenario

When restorative justice practitioners disagree about prerequisites for participation

The other mediators in our restorative justice program and I keep clashing over whether we should require the person who caused harm to show remorse before we can move forward with a circle process.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Colleagues are discovering that their definitions of readiness and accountability create incompatible approaches to the same cases.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Restorative justice — theory and practice?”

Peri

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