When relationships don’t matter, we are more inclined to do bad things. There has been a lot of media in my neck of the woods this fall, around broken relationships, and doing bad things. I think there is no time like this time, to focus more on our relationships to each other, as a measure [...]
Face To Face: New movie tackles workplace bullying with community conferencing
September 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
It’ s always nice when others take hold of concepts that one holds dear. Following on the restorative justice theme over the last week on this blog (and its not even restorative justice week yet!), a new movie was released in Australia last week, “Face To Face“. It is framed around a centerpiece of restorative [...]
The Good News: Restorative Justice
September 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
Two recent news items about restorative justice caught my intention. Which one should I let “take the day”? The first was what I consider a bad news story. Alberta pulls restorative justice funding, read the CBC news article headline. The Province of Alberta will stop funding restorative justice programs. This is hard one for me [...]
Gillian Lindquist: Community Connector
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gillian Lindquist knows how to bring people together, and get them talking, openly and honestly, about difficult situations. In her role as Program Coordinator, Victoria Restorative Justice Society (VRJS), I’ve observed her (I’m a VRJS member and ex-Board member) consistently reach out and connect people, and organizations, in the community. The context is always challenging; [...]
Restorative Justice: A community response when bad things happen
April 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
Bad things happen. They did to Katy Hutchison on New Year’s Eve in 1997. Her husband Bob was beaten to death while checking on a party being thrown by their neighbour’s son. It happened in Squamish, a small town just north of Vancouver. A wall of silence grew up around the murder. It was four [...]
