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Overcoming Violence and Pursuing Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice Procedures
Author(s) -
Kerber Guillermo
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6623.2003.tb00191.x
Subject(s) - impunity , economic justice , law , human rights , restorative justice , terrorism , political science , criminology , sociology
As part of its contribution to the Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace (DOV), the World Council of Churches has identified four thematic foci. One of these four foci is related to “issues of justice”. The present article does not seek to unfold all the implications of this focus but to reflect on one dimension of justice. It brings together some of the presentations I have made on DOV and restorative justice in different meetings since 2001. It tries to show the links between violence and justice and to develop some reflections on the background of restorative justice, a theoretical framework of the work of truth and reconciliation commissions all over the world.