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<b>Restorative Justice</b> Practices in Every Classroom
I was delighted to see another New York Times article about restorative justice. Patricia Leigh Brown's April 3 article, "Opening Up, Students Transform a Vicious Circle," describes the use of restorative justice "talking circles" at Ralph J. Bunche ...
American Justice -- For Profit Prisons or Truth?
Side by side, a system of punishment and corporate interest that GEO helps lead, dies slowly and quite resistantly, as simultaneously a systemic transformation occurs, implementing powerful new ways of doing justice: Restorative Justice. It cannot be ...
<b>Restorative Justice</b> Is Not Forgiveness
Both the Times and the Today stories do their audience a disservice by dwelling on forgiveness as the apparent reason for restorative justice. Forgiveness is neither an expectation nor a goal of restorative justice. Forgiveness may be a by-product, but ...
<b>Restorative Justice</b> Is Not Forgiveness
This story about a restorative justice conference following the murder of a young woman by her boyfriend was also covered on the January 5 episode of the Today Show, "Parents who forgave their daughter's killer: It 'frees us.'" Both the Times and the ...
<b>Restorative Justice</b> Is Not Forgiveness
Restorative justice has been receiving a lot of attention lately, due to Paul Tullis's January 4 New York Times Magazine article, "Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?" This story about a restorative justice conference following the murder ...
Django Unchained: <b>Restorative Justice</b> -- Who We Are, Who We Want to Be
loved Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds because they are moral revenge fantasies, and how much you believe in the kind of restorative justice principles touted in The New York Times Magazine earlier this month. I saw Django this weekend and ...
Django Unchained: <b>Restorative Justice</b> -- Who We Are, Who We Want to Be
Here's something to reconcile: how much I (you?) loved Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds because they are moral revenge fantasies, and how much you believe in the kind of restorative justice principles touted in The New York Times Magazine ...
<b>Political</b> Religion Mangles <b>Politics</b> and Religion
It was practical vs. impractical and useful vs. unworkable, all under the umbrella of the law and agreed-upon values. ... Imposing such spiritual categories on an essentially pragmatic enterprise warps both our understanding of politics and religion ...
Murgan Salem al-Gohary, Egyptian Jihadist, Wants Pyramids And Sphinx <b>...</b>
They have “taken the necessary precautions to prevent violations of the law or any abuses of anything in the public domain or archaeological treasures including the pyramids,” according to a report by al-Masry al-Youm, an Egyptian paper, via The ...
A Christian Faith Enriched by Buddhism
So I went through college and a good chunk of law school with no faith or spiritual life. Then I found Buddhism. What began as a flirtation turned into 20 years of life as a Buddhist, two of them living in Buddhist monasteries in Nepal and India, one ...
