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Developing Restorative Juvenile Justice in Peru
In Peru, the majority of juvenile offenders are incarcerated, even in cases of petty crime, with close to 68% having sentences of three years or less. This is ...
Faundez, Julio. Non-State Justice Systems in Latin America Case Studies: Peru and Colombia
Faundez explores the emergence and practice on non-state justice systems in Latin America. Using Colombia and Peru as case studies, he describes the ...
Theidon, Kimberly. Justice in Transition: The Micropolitics of Reconciliation in Postwar Peru.
This article draws on anthropological research conducted with communities in Ayacucho, the region of Peru that suffered the greatest loss of life during the ...
Editor. Reparations for Sexual and Reproductive Violence: Prospects for Achieving Gender Justice in Guatemala and Peru
Sexual and reproductive violence (SRV) perpetrated against women during war or under authoritarian regimes is one of the most severe manifestations of ...
Parker, Lynette. Developing Restorative Juvenile Justice in Peru
In Peru, the majority of juvenile offenders are incarcerated, even in cases of petty crime, with close to 68% having sentences of three years or less. This is ...
Young, Paula. The Promise of Restorative Justice: Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Issues its Final Report
In the aftermath of a long war between the government and insurgent groups in the 1980s and into the 1990s, Peru established a Truth and Reconciliation ...
July 2007 Edition
Stories include: Developing Restorative Juvenile Justice in Peru; Attitudes of Victims and Offenders toward Restorative Justice; Book Review: Charting ...
. Restorative justice for children in conflict with the law: Promising practices and lessons learned.
This is a report of a workshop on “Restorative Justice for Children in Conflict with the Law: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned” that took place on 5 ...
Laplante, Lisa J. . On the Indivisibility of Rights: Truth Commissions, Reparations, and the Right to Development
While academics debate the ranking of rights, information from the field demonstrates their indivisibility. This Article explores how truth commissions provide ...
Developing Restorative Juvenile Justice in Peru
In Peru, the majority of juvenile offenders are incarcerated, even in cases of petty crime, with close to 68% having sentences of three years or less. This is ...
More on Restorative Justice at the UN Crime Congress
Day two at the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice didn’t yield as many comments of restorative justice, but there were some ...
. Indigenous peoples and reparations claims: Tentative steps in Peru and Guatemala.
In situations of large-scale violence and repression, reparations are best conceptualized as rights-based political projects aimed at giving victims due ...
New Items in the RJ Online Library
One of the main attractions on Restorative Justice Online is the research database with over 9600 citations of restorative justice publications ranging from ...
Graveson, Chris. Restorative juvenile justice: The challenges, the rewards.
The paper entitled “Restorative Juvenile Justice: the Challenges, the Rewards” was written by Chris Graveson as a contribution to the discussions of the 1st ...
. Restorative juvenile justice -- The challenges -- The rewards.
The paper entitled “Restorative Juvenile Justice: the Challenges, the Rewards” was written by Justice Renate Winter as a contribution to the discussions of the ...
Editor. UNDERSTANDING THE ROAD TOWARDS A TRUTH COMMISSION
Truth commissions, usually described as a softer transitional justice alternative to trials, gained traction in academic circles following the ...
Evenson, Elizabeth M.. Truth and Justice in Sierra Leone: Coordination Between Commission and Court.
Truth commissions and trials are now operating concurrently as mechanisms of transitional justice in settings as diverse as Peru, East Timor, and Sierra ...
Latin America
Latin American countries have explored restorative justice to reform their justice systems, increase citizen confidence, pursue national reconciliation, and ...
Website of the Month: National Association for Community Mediation
The National Association for Community Mediation is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to community-based mediation programs. The organization ...
Farell, Emily and Seipp, Kathy. The Road to eace: A Teaching Guide on Local and Global Transitional Justice.
The Road to Peace: A Teaching Guide on Local and Global Transitional Justice is a comprehensive teaching guide that introduces students who have a general ...
Lima Declaration on Restorative Juvenile Justice
In November 2009, the First World Congress on Restorative Juvenile Justice (Congress) --organised by the Foundation Terre des Hommes, the Public Prosecutor of ...
. Silences, visibility and agency: Ethnicity, class and gender in public memorialization.
After periods of extended political conflict and of repression or state terrorism, there is an active political struggle about the meaning of what occurred. ...
Mantilla Falcón, Julissa. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Treatment of Sexual Violence Against Women
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN is an expression of genderbased violence that affects thousands of women around the world during times of armed conflict, as ...
Mendez, Juan E.. The Human Right to Truth: Lessons Learned From Latin American Experiences with Truth Telling
This chapter explores official truth-telling experiences in Latin America and their contributions to social peace in the aftermath of massive and systematic ...
Laplante, Lisa J.. The Peruvian Truth Commission's Historical Memory Project: Empowering Truth-Tellers to Confront Truth Deniers.
This article examines the role memory recuperation projects play in responding to and preventing periods of state repression and abuse. In particular, the ...
Blevins, Michael F.. Restorative Justice, Slavery, and the American Soul, A Policy-Oriented Intercultural Human Rights Approach to the Question of Reparations.
Blevins provides an overview of how past slavery has an effect on present society; reparations have not been paid to the African American community and ...
Restorative Justice Everywhere: Final Update from the UN Crime Congress
Friday (my last day at the UN Crime Congress) was busy with ancillary sessions and sitting through one of the main workshops. The first ancillary session, ...
Greensboro redux
from Chester Hartman's blog entry on The Huffington Post: It's wonderful to see the coverage of the 50th anniversary event at the Smithsonian commemorating ...
Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions have been convened to address human rights atrocities in several countries. The commissions document what happened and the ...
New Items in the RJ Online Database
New additions to the RJ Online research database over the last week covered several issues related to transitional justice as well as social work and schools.
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