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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.

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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.

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