Restorative Efforts in the Community

Articles Available                                                                

• Citizens, Victims and Offenders Restoring Peace Project MCF Lino Lakes
• Citizens Victims and Offenders Restoring Peace Project MCF Shakopee
• City Uses Restorative Justice with Woman Who Stole to Gamble
• Communities and the Justice System - Turning the Relationship Upside Down
• Conferencing and the Community
• How to Build Community Support for Restorative Justice
• Leading the Way to Justice
• Neighborhood Collective Efficacy -Does it help reduce violence?
• Promising Practice in Community Justice: Restorative Justice
• Reconnecting the Judicial System to Community Priorities
• Restorative Justice Resources
• Restorative Justice Summit Shows Why Concept is on Rise
• Rethinking Community Corrections: Restorative Values and An Expanded Role for the Community
• Using Restorative Responses to Reweave the Social Fabric

Books Available

• Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Literature Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building by Paul Mattessich, Barbara Monsey, Barbara Monsey, Vincent Hyman (Editor) ISBN: 0940069121
• Community and Neighbor Mediation by Marian Liebmann (Editor), Maria Liebmann (Editor) ISBN: 1859411568
  "Looks at mediation as it can be applied to resolving community and neighborhood disputes. The book covers the history and theory of mediation practices before looking at how these can work in practice by analyzing the mediation process and examining detailed case studies. It goes on to look at the organizational structures which allow these processes to be delivered, from model structures and services to advice on recruitment and training. The book also examines practical issues such as the importance of equal opportunities in community mediation schemes, how to maintain standards and get accreditation, and how to maintain cost-effectiveness."

• Community Justice Concepts and Strategies by Eduardo Barajas, Gordon Bazemore ISBN: 0872928624

• Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders, and Community by Martin Wright (Editor), Burt Galaway (Editor) ISBN: 0803980639
  " The last decade has seen the growth of mediation as an alternative to existing forms of resolution of the criminal justice process. The rise of mediation has been inspired by varied motives: to give victims better outcomes; to relieve the pressures on the courts; to offer courts new ways of resolving disputes; and to restore justice to the community outside the criminal justice system. To what extent can mediation schemes achieve the aims of their exponents? Wright and Galaway assess the international experiences of mediation in theory and in practice. A team of researchers and practitioners draw together experiences in North America, Western Europe and Japan, and examine the extent to which different forms of mediation have succeeded in their aims. They address key problems such as how far it has extended the reach of the criminal justice system. As a major international assessment of the progress of mediation, this book will be essential reading for researchers and lecturers in criminology, social work and law as well as for all concerned with the rights of victims and offenders and with the criminal justice system."
• Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts: A Pathway to Peace by Mark S. Umbreit ISBN: 1881111040
• The Little Book of Conflict Transformation By: John Paul Lederach ISBN: 1561483907
  This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why “conflict transformation is more appropriate than “conflict resolution” or “management.” But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. Conflict Transformation is an idea with a deep reach. Its practice, says Lederach, requires “both solutions and social change.” It asks not simply “How do we end something not desired?”, but “How do we end something destructive and build something desired?” How do we deal with the immediate crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking and practices possible? Lederach, now a scholar with the Joan Kroc Institute of Conflict Studies at the University of Notre Dame, writes out of his years of work in Central America, in Somalia, in Bosnia, and in Ireland. A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.
• The Little Book of Strategic Negotiation: Negotiating During Turbulent Times By: Jayne Seminare Docherty ISBN: 1561484288
  Most books on negotiation assume that the negotiators are in a stable setting.
  But what about those far thornier times when negotiation needs to happen while other fundamental factors are in uproarious change—deciding which parent will have custody of their child while a divorce is underway; bargaining between workers and management during the course of a merger and downsizing; or establishing a new government as a civil war winds down. From Docherty’s experiences in environmental/public policy negotiations and community development work.
• The Little Book of Trauma Healing By Carolyn Yoder ISBN: 1561485071

  “Following the staggering events of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was asked to help, by officials overseeing clean-up and recovery efforts in New York. The staff and faculty proposed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programs in response. In the years since then, those ideas have been put into practice, re-tooled, and used successfully again and again.

  Now, STAR director, Carolyn Yoder, has shaped the strategies and learnings from those experiences into a book for all who have known terrorism and threatened security.

  This Little Book addresses communities and societies caught in cycles of victimhood and/or violence. . . in other words, those of us who have been traumatized by terrorists or tsunamis, by unsafe and ongoing occupation or oppression. This Little Book looks at: - Breaking free to safety; - Taking risks successfully; - Recognizing our interdependence.

  Says Yoder, "The primary premise and challenge of this Little Book is that traumatic events and times have the potential to awaken the human spirit and, indeed, the global family. But this requires acknowledging our own history and that of the enemy, honestly searching for root causes, and shifting our emphasis from national security to human security." A startlingly helpful approach.”