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Up one levelThese video resources have been reviewed on Restorative Justice Online.
- Video Review: Choices: on the way to peace
- Choices: on the way to peace is a three session video driven small group study on issues related to forgiveness and reconciliation.
- Video Review: Facing the Demons
- Facing the Demons is the story of a restorative conference held in a murder case.
- Video Review: Achieving Balanced and Restorative Justice in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile justice System
- This 23-minute video explores the principles and programmes of the Balanced and Restorative Justice initiative in the juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania.
- Video Review: Heartspeak Productions on You Tube
- Heartspeak Productions creates multimedia presentations promoting restorative justice values and practices. Its documentary A Healing River has received good reviews. Heartspeak Productions has recently begun posting clips from that documentary and other sources on You Tube.
- Video Review: Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice
- Repairing the Harm is a 30-minute documentary discussing restorative justice concepts and uses in various settings.
- Video Review: Journey Toward Forgiveness
- This 58-minute video presents the voices of people who have experienced the anger and bitterness of losing a loved one and chosen forgiveness.
- Video Review: Breaking Bows and Arrows.
- This documentary offers a gripping and powerful picture of the traditional processes that have helped build peace in Bougainville after the civil war. It provides a wonderful complement to the articles in this edition of Restorative Justice Online because it allows the viewer to watch the processes described and explored in those articles.
- Video Review: The Road to Healing: An Introduction to Restorative Justice & Alternative Dispute Resolution
- The South African NGO Khulisa works toward building stronger communities and addressing crime in a way that brings healing. This video highlights Khulisa’s work with restorative justice and offers an excellent introduction to restorative justice.
- Video Review: Widening the Circle: The Family Group Decision Making Experience
- The use of restorative process to address domestic violence has been hotly debated. This 43 minute video begins with a dramatization of one case of family violence and shows how Family Group Conferencing offers families the opportunity to develop their own solutions.
- Video Review: Beyond Conviction
- Beyond Conviction tells the stories of three Pennsylvania prisoners who met with their victims or victim survivors to answer questions and take responsibility for their actions.
- Video Review: Pathways to Permanence: Introduction to Mediation, Family Group Conferencing, and Concurrent Planning.
- Child protection cases are frequently addressed in adversarial court processes concentrating on family weaknesses. They can result in children spending years in foster care. This introductory video explores alternatives to this court-based approach, including family group conferencing and mediation.
- Video Review: Introducing Restorative Justice: A Positive Approach in Schools
- This video contains four segments that explain how restorative justice can be used in schools and demonstrates the positive impact it can have on discipline and hence on its overall environment.
- 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.
- Video Review: Victim Offender Mediation and Conferencing: A Multi-Method Approach
- This 22 minute informational video offers an introduction to restorative justice processes and the importance of fostering dialogue to help victims and offenders respond to crime.
- Video Review: Glimmer of Hope
- Glimmer of Hope follows the journey of healing for one family after the rape and murder of their 18 year old daughter and sister.
- Video Reviews: Gacaca: Living Together in Rwanda? & In Rwanda We Say… The Family That Does Not Speak Dies
- The Rwandan government chose to use an indigenous conflict resolution process to try many of the suspects held for genocide crimes. These two films provide a window into the human experiences of those crimes and the difficult task of rebuilding a nation, communities, and personal relationships in their aftermath.
- Video Review: Red Hook Justice
- This 55 minute documentary describes the efforts of the Red Hook Community Justice Center to bring defendants, court officials and local community members together to overcome the endemic problems in their Brooklyn, New York community.
- Video Review: Beyond Zero Tolerance: Restorative Practices in Schools
- Beyond Zero Tolerance explores the applicability of restorative practices in a school setting.
- Video Review: Burning Bridges
- This 35 minute documentary begins with news reports of the arson of an historic wooden covered bridge in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the eventual apprehension of six local, college age men who set the fire. The focus of the video, however, is made up of footage of a restorative conference conducted by the International Institute for Restorative Practices. It concludes with television news footage after the sentencing.
- Video Review: Restorative Justice: Victim Empowerment through Mediation and Dialogue
- This video presents three crime victims talking about their experiences and feelings related to their crimes and to victim offender mediation.
