At the Peacemaker Hub, Restorative practice involves facilitation within a range of areas including the Restorative Justice process within the Criminal Justice Courts, the workplace environment, educational institutions, and community disputes.
Restorative Practice can be defined as an approach to restoring relationships when conflict or harm arises. It incorporates awareness of the harm caused by one person to another. The restorative practice approach provides an opportunity for parties involved in conflict to address the harm that has been caused and meaningfully restore relationships.
Restorative Practice in the Workplace:
Workplace disputes often involve conflict that arises in the workplace or people’s experience of inappropriate behavior at work, this results in relationships being broken and teams suffer.
Restorative practice is a process that can be used within the workplace both to prevent conflict happening in the first place and to address it when it does. It enables and strengthen individuals and teams to work well together.
It is a cost effective approach for employers to resolving conflict within the workplace. Peacemaker Hub helps employers and employees engage in a restorative approach to conflict in the workplace to obtain positive outcomes and better working relationships.
Restorative Justice:
Restorative Justice is a process that brings together people to find a way to make right the harm caused by an offence.
In New Zealand, a referral to the Restorative Justice process is made when a guilty plea has been made by an offender in Court. The process involves Restorative Justice conferences between victims of an offence and the offender.
benefits of restorative justice
The benefits of restorative justice cases include:
- Recognition and involvement of people, families, or entities adversely affected by the offending, as victims or community representatives. They are able to ask questions, tell the offender of the effects of the offending on them, and participate in finding ways to put right the wrong that has occurred.
- Deterrence for future offending, accountability and taking responsibility
- Allow for the voice of the victim to be heard and validated.
The Peacemaker Hub facilitates both court referred and private referrals in restorative justice.
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