This study examines the reconciliation potential of Rwandans incarcerated for the crime of genocide. Utilising survey data from 302 male and female prisoners incarcerated in the Rwandan Correctional System, this study explores genocide perpetrators’ depression, anxiety, anger-hostility and somatic symptoms, levels of posttraumatic stress, degree of social support and attitudes towards unity and reconciliation. The data demonstrate that engaging in killing can have deep psychological impacts for genocide perpetrators. The data indicate that although more than two decades have passed since the genocide, perpetrators are experiencing high levels of genocide-related posttraumatic suffering. Perpetrators are persistently re-experiencing genocide, purposefully avoiding thoughts and memories of the genocide, and experiencing physical and emotional arousal and reactivity. The sample had a strong desire for all Rwandans to live in peace and unity. There is, however, an urgent need for physical and mental health interventions, as well as services that facilitate the rebuilding of family relationships well in advance of release. Improving the physical and mental well-being of both perpetrators of the genocide and victims can only be a positive development as Rwanda continues to build a unified, reconciled and resilient future. |
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Notes from the field |
Conclusion: the restorative city – a challenge about means and ends |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Chris Straker |
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Reconciliation potential of Rwandans convicted of genocide |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Keywords | Rwanda, genocide, perpetrators, posttraumatic stress, reconciliation |
Authors | Kevin Barnes-Ceeney, Laurie Leitch and Lior Gideon |
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Book Review |
Restorative justice in China: comparing theory and practice |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Wendy Chit-Ying Lui |
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Listening deeply to public perceptions of Restorative JusticeWhat can researchers and practitioners learn? |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Keywords | Public perception, media, apophatic listening, online comments, understandings of restorative justice |
Authors | Dorothy Vaandering and Kristin Reimer |
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This article explores public perceptions of restorative justice through the examination of media articles and negative online reader comments surrounding a high-profile incident in a Canadian university in which a restorative process was successfully engaged. Utilising relational discourse analysis, we identify how restorative justice is presented in the media and how that presentation is taken up by the public. Media representations of restorative justice create understandings among the public that are profoundly different from how many restorative justice advocates perceive it. The aim of this article is to examine media representations of restorative justice and how these are received by the public so that we can respond constructively. |
Case study |
Tempio Pausania: social conflict resolution in a community setting |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Gian Luigi Lepri, Ernesto Lodi and Patrizia Patrizi |
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Notes from the field |
The emergence of the idea of a ‘restorative city’ and its link to restorative justice |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Grazia Mannozzi |
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Case study |
Como: restorative wefts in the community |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Bruna Dighera |
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Editorial |
Justice as care |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Christopher D. Marshall |
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How framing past political violence affects reconciliation in the Basque CountryThe role of responsibility attributions and in-group victimhood |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Keywords | Political violence, apologies, in-group victimhood, responsibility attributions, Basque Country |
Authors | Magdalena Bobowik, Darío Páez, Nekane Basabe e.a. |
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The present study examines the impact of reminders of political violence with and without an apology on the desire for intergroup revenge in the context of political violence in the Basque Country. We expected attributions of responsibility and perceived in-group victimhood to explain these effects. A total of 257 Basque adults were assigned to three conditions: no reminder, reminders of political violence without an apology and reminders of political violence with an apology. Results showed that, as compared to no reminder condition, reminders of political violence without an apology led to assigning more responsibility to police forces and the Spanish state and less responsibility to Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and Basque nationalism, as well as increased perceptions of in-group victimhood and the desire for intergroup revenge. Reminders of political violence accompanied by an apology activated less assignment of responsibility to police forces and the Spanish state, but more responsibility attributions to ETA and Basque nationalism, as well as activated perceptions of in-group victimhood. As expected, there was a sequential indirect effect of reminders without an apology (but not with an apology) on revenge through responsibility attributions and then perceptions of in-group victimhood. We discuss implications of these findings for intergroup relations in post-conflict contexts. |
Case study |
Leuven: creating support and skills for handling conflicts in a restorative way |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Lies Van Cleynenbreugel |
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Book Review |
Restorative responses to sexual violence: legal, social and therapeutic dimensions |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Sanja Ćopić |
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Case study |
Brighton and Hove: developing a culture of doing ‘with’ as prevention rather than cure |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Tim Read and Chris Straker |
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Case study |
Whanganui: respectful relationships at the heart of our city – a story from New Zealand |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Jenny Saywood |
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Book Review |
Religion, tradition, and restorative justice in Sierra Leone |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | John Winterdyk |
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Looking beneath the iceberg: can shame and pride be handled restoratively in cases of workplace bullying |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Keywords | Bullying, victimisation, shame management, pride management, social connectedness |
Authors | Valerie Braithwaite and Eliza Ahmed |
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Central to restorative justice interventions that follow revised reintegrative shaming theory (Ahmed, Harris, Braithwaite & Braithwaite, 2001) is individual capacity to manage shame and pride in safe and supportive spaces. From a random sample of 1,967 Australians who responded to a national crime survey, 1,045 completed a module about bullying experiences at work over the past year, along with measures of shame and pride management (the MOSS-SASD and MOPS scales). Those who identified themselves as having bullied others were pride-focused, not shame-focused. They were more likely to express narcissistic pride over their work success, lauding their feats over others, and were less likely to express humble pride, sharing their success with others. In contrast, victims were defined by acknowledged and displaced shame over work task failures. In addition to these personal impediments to social reintegration, those who bullied and those targeted had low trust in others, particularly professionals. While these findings do not challenge macro interventions for culture change through more respectful and restorative practices, they provide a basis for setting boundaries for the appropriate use of restorative justice meetings to address particular workplace bullying complaints. |
Book Review |
La giustizia riparativa: formanti, parole, e metodi |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Brunilda Pali |
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Conversation on restorative justice |
A talk with Ezzat Fattah |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 2 2019 |
Authors | Albert Dzur |
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Journal | Family & Law, August 2019 |
Authors | Elise Blondeel MSc and prof. dr. Wendy De Bondt |
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This article is part of a broader discussion about attaining a full-fledged child-friendly (criminal) justice. Attaining that goal is particularly challenging in cases of international parental abduction, due to the involvement of two branches of law. It is examined to what extent the current interaction guarantees a decision in the best interests of the child. More specifically, the implications of the adage le criminel tient le civil en état are scrutinised from a children’s rights perspective. |
Pending Cases |
Case C-537/18, Age Discrimination, General DiscriminationYV – v – Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa, reference lodged by the Sąd Najwyższy (Poland) on 17 August 2018 |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 2 2019 |
Case Reports |
2019/20 How to interpret the Posting of Workers Directive in the cross-border road transport sector? Dutch Supreme Court asks the ECJ for guidance (NL) |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 2 2019 |
Keywords | Private International Law, Posting of Workers and Expatriates, Applicable Law |
Authors | Zef Even and Amber Zwanenburg |
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In this transnational road transport case, the Dutch Supreme Court had to elaborate on the ECJ Koelzsch and Schlecker cases and asks for guidance from the ECJ on the applicability and interpretation of the Posting of Workers Directive. |