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Video Review: Communities and the Challenge of Conflict: New Perspectives on Restorative Justice
Communities and the Challenge of Conflict offers a brief overview of restorative justice and of a number of the issues surrounding its implementation. It was designed to lead into group discussion, and it is highly suited for that purpose.
Produced by the Law Commission of Canada. 2000. 30 minutes.
This video was created as part of a Law Commission project to explore ways in which lessons learned from restorative justice practice might be applied more broadly in dealing with complex relationships in which there are significantly competing interests. The Commission prepared a discussion paper on their project, questions for discussion, and this educational video providing an overview of restorative justice.
The video is comprised of conversations that took place during a forum on restorative justice and interviews that were apparently made at the same time. The people involved in the forum had considerable and varied experience with restorative justice, ranging from Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel to judges, and from facilitators using traditional Aboriginal practices to those involved in highly structured research projects.
It is organized around twelve topics, each of which is addressed quickly in an attempt to raise key issues related to the topics. Those are:
Virtually all important issues about restorative justice are touched on in this video. As such, it offers an excellent introduction to the topic (enhanced by the inclusion of an activities guide that could be used to generate group discussion or individual study).
The project ended with a report that is available on the Law Commission’s website, and as a result the Commission is no longer reproducing the video. However limited copies are on hand and are available at no cost. For further information, contact info@lcc.gc.ca.
Daniel W. Van Ness
September 2006
This video was created as part of a Law Commission project to explore ways in which lessons learned from restorative justice practice might be applied more broadly in dealing with complex relationships in which there are significantly competing interests. The Commission prepared a discussion paper on their project, questions for discussion, and this educational video providing an overview of restorative justice.
The video is comprised of conversations that took place during a forum on restorative justice and interviews that were apparently made at the same time. The people involved in the forum had considerable and varied experience with restorative justice, ranging from Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel to judges, and from facilitators using traditional Aboriginal practices to those involved in highly structured research projects.
It is organized around twelve topics, each of which is addressed quickly in an attempt to raise key issues related to the topics. Those are:
- Restorative justice and community
- Building restorative justice processes
- Conflict
- Circles
- Community Conferencing/Community Justice Forums
- Victim Offender Mediation
- Tessier-Du Bois Case (a drunk driving case in which a man was killed; the offender and the man’s son met in a restorative process)
- Victims’ issues
- Offender accountability
- Power
- Community resourcing
- The future.
Virtually all important issues about restorative justice are touched on in this video. As such, it offers an excellent introduction to the topic (enhanced by the inclusion of an activities guide that could be used to generate group discussion or individual study).
The project ended with a report that is available on the Law Commission’s website, and as a result the Commission is no longer reproducing the video. However limited copies are on hand and are available at no cost. For further information, contact info@lcc.gc.ca.
Daniel W. Van Ness
September 2006
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