David B. Moore, PhD., has been centrally involved in Australia’s reforms in using community conferencing in the education and justice systems. David left his academic appointments to work on policy and program implementation in the Queensland Premier’s Department. Later he co-founded Transformative Justice Australia (TJA).  From 1996 – 2002, David trained conferencing facilitators in:

• Australia
• Canada
• USA
• Scandinavia
  
• UK
  

He also provided conflict management facilitation and training to Australian organisations across key industry sectors, and restorative justice training in the community and government sectors.  The work of TJA inspired David Williamson’s critically acclaimed Jack Manning Trilogy of plays: Face to Face, A Conversation, and Charitable Intent (1999 - 2001), all three of which dramatize the conferencing process. David Moore’s own published works in restorative justice include The Jack Manning Trilogy: A study guide (2003) and Transforming Conflict (2000).

Since 2002, he has worked as an independent consultant and in alliance with several Australian communications consultancies. 

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Leading Edge

David’s current work in restorative justice includes:

• improving methods to implement restorative practices in individual schools and across school systems;
• collaborating with colleagues in the state of Victoria to assist restorative justice reforms in the youth and adult justice systems and human services;
• continuing to adapt restorative justice principles and practices to address conflict in workplaces.

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Important Idea

The language of “restorative justice” has begun to be used in the context of workplace issues only in the last few years.  While restorative justice processes in workplaces may seem a logical progression from restorative justice in the criminal justice, welfare and school systems, in practice this involves some complex theory and changes in practice and language.  Changing the language we use tends to change the way we understand processes, and changes our sense of how and when they should be used.

-- from “Restorative Justice in Workplaces,” December 2005 draft for the website of the Victorian Association of Restorative Justice.

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Reach David Moore at  dbmoore@primeperformance.com.au

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