{"id":19299,"date":"2020-09-09T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19299"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:11:53","slug":"justice-in-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19299","title":{"rendered":"Justice in Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Restorative Justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justice\nin Relationship<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, \u202fSeptember 9,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AUdMMUUYXKs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Fania\nE. Davis is a civil rights attorney, writer, scholar, and the founding director\nof Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. She explains that through engaging in\na relational process of repairing harm, restorative justice is:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\njustice that seeks not to punish, but to heal. A justice, according to Kay\nPranis, that is not about getting even, but about getting well. [1] A justice\nthat seeks to transform broken lives, relationships, and communities, rather\nthan shatter them further. A justice that seeks reconciliation, rather than a\ndeepening of conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Davis has\nstudied the indigenous roots of restorative justice around the world,\nparticularly in Africa, as shown in her reflections:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>African\njustice making, rather than an occasion to inflict punishment, is an\nopportunity to teach, learn, reemphasize social values, and reaffirm the bonds\nof our inherent inter-relatedness. It is also an opportunity to identify and\nredress problematic social conditions that may have given rise to interpersonal\nharm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nAfrican indigenous justice, vindication of the person harmed is prioritized.\nThe person responsible, and often their family, is obligated to offer apology,\nrecompense, and reparation to the harmed person and community. A wrong can be\nmade right by subsequent actions of the responsible person and other community\nmembers. Community is central. The concept of family in Africa embraces the\nnuclear family and the extended family as well as people who do not share blood\nor marriage relationships. Also, the African family extends beyond the living\nto include the realm of the ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed,\nin the African worldview, when something happens to one, whether blessing or\nburden, it happens to all. A newborn baby is good fortune for family and also\nthe entire village. Marriage unites two clans, not just two individuals. The\ndeeply communal ethos among African and other indigenous traditions also holds\ntrue when wrongdoing occurs. If an individual steals from or kills another,\nthey damage the relationship between their respective lineages or villages. In\nthe wake of harm, making it right is not solely the responsibility of the\nindividuals directly involved; it also the responsibility of communities. The\nfocus is on repairing and rebuilding relationships with the intent of bringing\nsocial harmony. African indigenous justice seeks to strengthen relationships by\nfashioning win-win outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In keeping with\nthe worldview and principles of African and other indigenous justice systems,\nrestorative justice invites a paradigm shift in the way we think about and do\njustice\u2014from a justice that harms to a justice that heals. Our prevailing\nadversarial system [of justice] . . . harms people who harm people, presumably\nto show that harming people is wrong. This sets into motion endless cycles of\nharm. Restorative justice seeks to interrupt these cycles by repairing the\ndamage done to relationships in the wake of a crime or other wrongdoing, and do\nso in a way that is consonant with indigenous wisdom\u2014Africa\u2019s and that of other\ntraditions. Justice is a healing ground, not a battleground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restorative Justice Justice in Relationship Wednesday, \u202fSeptember 9, 2020 Fania E. Davis is a civil rights attorney, writer, scholar, and the founding director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. She explains that through engaging in a relational process of repairing harm, restorative justice is: A justice that seeks not to punish, but to heal. 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