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From Crime And Punishment To Harm And Healing, Louis L. Fletcher Phd, David Watson
From Crime And Punishment To Harm And Healing, Louis L. Fletcher Phd, David Watson
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Expulsion hearings do not have to be contentious events. Using restorative practices in an accountable environment changes the expulsion hearing into an alternative placement discussion where parents, students, and school officials figure out the next step together.
Rights In Small Places? Participation, Rights And Power In Northern Ireland, Nicola Browne
Rights In Small Places? Participation, Rights And Power In Northern Ireland, Nicola Browne
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
That a disconnect exists between ordinary people and the world of human rights academia, NGOs and INGOs and the marginalised communities they are intended to serve is undisputed. As the years preceding and following the financial crash have been characterised by increased economic inequality and concentration of power and influence in the hands of a ever-shrinking coterie of elites, human rights as a tool of change have seemed increasingly legalistic, irrelevant and divorced from the people. A case study will be presented of Belfast based rights organisation (Participation and the Practice of Rights - PPR) set up to develop and …
A New Future? The Catholic Church, Grassroots Justice, And Accountability, Regina Menachery Paulose
A New Future? The Catholic Church, Grassroots Justice, And Accountability, Regina Menachery Paulose
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
Between the 1970s and 1980s, Guatemalans, particularly the indigenous populations, were targets of a state-sponsored genocide. Several years after the genocide, Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi of Guatemala City took the lead in creating the Recovery of Historical Memory Project which was an independent investigation into the events of the genocide. Gerardi was murdered before the report was made public. This paper will briefly discuss Gerardi’s work and his contribution to local justice in Guatemala. The author will then explore what contributions the Catholic Church could make in creating similar fact-finding missions. Could a grassroots mechanism such as the one Gerardi …