Restorative justice and large organizations as victims

from the entry on Mediation Services -- Thinking Out Loud:

One of the ongoing challenges we face here at Mediation Services is how to meaningfully involve corporations and large businesses in the restorative justice process.

The process is relatively clear when there is an offender and a victim – or even when there are multiple victims and/or offenders. Individuals have needs and interests and a mediator works to bring people together for meaningful and fruitful exchange. Of course, every situation is unique and demands an “out of the box” thinking in order to make any process effective for the participants.

But when the “victim” is a large corporation, there are at least two unique challenges for a mediator to address:

Jun 14, 2011 Limitations, Theory, Victim, Restitution

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