Justpeace Ethics: A Guide to Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding

This book is an enormously valuable contribution to thinking about doing justice and building peace. . . .an immensely practical guide to those seeking to build peace and justice. Professor Gerry Johnstone, author of Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values, Debates This is a must-read for conflict resolution academics and practitioners. Neil Funk-Unrau, Conflict Resolution Studies, Menno Simons College, Canadian Mennonite University           NEED HELP RESPONDING TO A HARM, CONFLICT OR INJUSTICE? People too often enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of the people involved and the end desired. Justice and peace too often serve as abstract ideals or distant shores. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of conflict resolution. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination--the basis of an alternative way of being in the midst of harm and injustice, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple guidebook Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in both just and peaceful ways. He offers practical examples of how analysis, intervention, and evaluation can be rooted in a justpeace imagination.