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Restorative Justice Principles Implementation

Restorative Justice: A Framework for Fresno.

Last revision February 2001. This document is being circulated among government, non-profit and business leaders for their endorsement. Please address your comments to Ron Claassen.

Restorative Justice Framework Endorsement

Organizations which have decided to adopt the RJ Framework can use this form to give their endorsement. Please send us the completed form.

Restorative Justice Assessment Instrument

This PDF document will help you assess the extent to which restorative justice principles are at work in your organization.

Restorative Justice Framework Progress Report 2001

Papers by Ron Claassen:

Restorative Justice Principles - Full version
Restorative Justice Principles - United Nations Version
See Nadeau, Jason. Critical analysis of the United Nations Declaration of Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programs in Criminal Matters Paper 1: What is Restorative Justice?
Paper 2: What is Forgiveness?
Paper 3: The Myth of "Redemptive Violence"
Paper 4: The J Scale
Paper 5: Accountability and Restorative Justice

A Peacemaking Model

Developed through victim offender reconciliation work, Ron shows how the Peacemaking Model can guide efforts at reconciliation.

VORP Newsletters

Four years of monthly newsletters with case reports and articles expanding on the practice of restorative justice (searchable).

"How We Respond Will Reveal Who We Are"

Responding to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. September 15, 2001 Fresno Bee article by Ron Claassen.

Introduction to Discipline that Restores

Ron describes his application of restorative justice principles to school discipline. Discipline that Restores has its own web site.

Israel Trip Report

Ron was invited to be one of two guest speakers for the First Restorative Justice Conference in Israel on May 1 and 2, 2002. This is a report of his trip and the conference.

Thailand Trip Report

Ron was a member of Angkana Boonsit's doctoral dissertation committee, traveling to Thailand for her defense. This is a report of that trip with photos. The trip included visits with the Directors General of the Department of Corrections and Department of Probation. He was also lecturer at the Grand Seminar. Report with photos attached (1.4 MB).

"Two Useful Models for Implementing Restorative Justice"

ACResolution v.3, n.4, Summer 2004.

Papers by Dalton Reimer.

India workshop report

Devotionals presented to the 4th Annual Restorative Justice Conference, October 25-26, 1996.

Versions of articles published in the Christian Leader

• "A Story of Nonviolent Action"
• "Violence, or Another Way?"
• "A City of Refuge"
• "A Parable of Peacebuilding"
• "The Quiet in the Land" ("Die stille im lande")

Papers by Duane Ruth-Heffelbower:

Other publications by Duane Ruth-Heffelbower

VORP Newsletters February 2003- present

Duane became the Administrator of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley, Inc. in September 2002. He has an article related to restorative justice in general or VORP in particular in each issue of the VORP newsletter since then.

"Victim Offender Mediation Refusals: A study of mediator perceptions,"

Duane Ruth-Heffelbower with Joe Montanez. Presented at the American Society of Victimology annual meeting April 28, 2005 at Fresno, CA.

"Peacebuilding begins when the looting starts"

A response to the war in Iraq, identifying the point where war-making gives way to peacebuilding.

"Building the Restorative Faith Community: Lessons from Indonesia"

Presented at the 9th Annual Restorative Justice Conference at Fresno Pacific University October 26, 2002.

"Indonesia: Out of One, Many?"

Article in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Vol. 26:2, Summer/Fall 2002, pp.223-238. Reprinted by permission.

"Restorative Justice or Impunity: The Choice for East Timor"

Describes how the quest for retributive justice can lead instead to impunity and proposes a restorative alternative. November 29, 2001.

Reconciling Injustices: A Process for Indonesia

Paper originally published in the Islamic Millennium Journal, vol. 1 no. 1, 2001. Reprinted by permission. This article describes restorative justice for a Muslim audience and describes a reconciliation process which could be used in Indonesia.

Reconciliation Perspective on West Papuan Political and Human Rights Problems.

Paper presented at the UEM Workshop on the Role of Churches in Human Rights Advocacy Hotel Irian Biak - West Papua: September 5, 2000.

Indonesia: Restorative Justice for Healing a Divided Society.

Paper presented at the April 2000 "Just Peace?" conference in Auckland, New Zealand. Note: 437k PDF file.

No Stumbling Block to Reconciliation

Sermon preached at the Yogyakarta, Indonesia International Congregation March 5, 2000 on 2 Corinthians 5:20 - 6:10.

Toward a Theology of Church and Society as it Relates to Restorative Justice.

Paper presented to the 4th Annual Restorative Justice Conference October 25, 1996.

Papers by Judge FWM (Fred) McElrea, Auckland District Court, New Zealand

"The New Zealand experience of restorative justice legislation"

a paper presented at 11th Annual Restorative Justice Conference, Fresno Pacific University, California, 23-24 September 2005 and at 5th Annual Conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 30 September 2005

Other Documents

Roxanne Claassen article "New Approaches to Classroom Discipline"

ACResolution v.3, n.4, Summer 2004.

Discipline That Restores

Conciliation Quarterly article by Roxanne Claassen.

Thinking Theologically about Church and State

Paper presented by Lois Barrett to the 4th Annual Restorative Justice Conference October 25, 1996.

Proceedings of the 4th Annual Restorative Justice Conference October 25-26, 1996.

The Maluleke Case from South Africa's High Court Transvaal Division

Judge FWM (Fred) McElrea, Auckland District Court, New Zealand discovered this case in preparation for a trip to South Africa. He says, ". . . a relatively rare judicial expression of the principles and value of restorative justice at a superior court level. It is readable and not lengthy. I commend it to you."

Understanding Pukhtoon Jirga by Hassan M Yousufzai & Ali Gohar.

This fascinating small book is available here as a free download. Gohar is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University's Conflict Transformation Program who is working in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Jirga is that area's traditional conflict resolution method.