PARTICIPATORY JUSTICE AND MEDIATION TOWARD A NEW MODEL OF JUSTICE

Mediation and Restorative Justice

2. What is restorative justice/practice? 2.1 Why should ‘restorative approaches’ be limited to addressing harm? 2.2 Defining harm 2.3 The difference between harm and conflict/disputes 2.4 Practical differences between mediation and restorative justice/practice 2.5 Complex cases: where the blame is shared 2.6 Why confusing restorative justice/practice and mediation can cause harm 2.7 Confusing r...

Mediation and Social Justice: Risks and Opportunities*

Since the earliest days of the “modern mediation field” in the 1970s, there has been a continuous and contentious debate regarding whether the use of mediation poses a threat to the value of justice, at both the individual and social levels.1 Early supporters of the process claimed that it would expand “access to justice,” and thus provide not only administrative savings to the courts but impor...

Criminal Mediation as a Doctrine of Restorative Justice from the Perspective of Law and Ethics

Background: Creating the ground for peace and reconciliation through recourse to arbitration has been one of the common methods of litigation that is rooted in ethics. In the criminal justice system, judicial and police officials are the reference for investigation, inquiry and investigation. The sovereign and their representatives have the exclusive competence and no other person has the autho...

Still moving toward environmental justice.

Three years in the making, the Institute of Medicine report Toward Environmental Justice was funded by a consortium of agencies, including the NIEHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The independent review was authored by a 15-member committee that represented academia, public interest, medicine, law, an...

Toward the Ideal of Community Justice