Sunday, 4 March 2012

Who decides what justice is?

Dominic Barter in the 6th of the key films from 2010 (called Camden Restorative Justice Clips):

At the close of this video (from 7 minutes and 53 seconds in), Dominic asks the key questions that promote engagement in vital dialogues as a pro-active considered choice rather than a reaction to what's going on that is taken on the hoof:

How can we create communities which are resilient enough, robust enough, to deal with this [period] of intense transition that we are in on almost every front:

  • transition in relationships
  • transition in parenting
  • transition in education

But also huge coming social transitions

  • with the way we distribute resources
  • with the way that we deal with the consequences of massive climate transformation
  • with the way in which we deal with the increasingly volatile economic situations

WE WILL BE MAKING DECISIONS
WE WILL BE RETURNING TO TOWN SQUARES
WE WILL BE RE-OPENING PUBLIC DIALOGUE ; if not because of the exciting potential that that gives us for democracy, then simply because the kinds of situation that we are increasingly confronting demand that of us.

So I would like us to learn to get more and more skilful about:

  1. How do we create social dialogue?
  2. How do we create procedures which support social dialogue?
  3. How do we create outcomes from that process which (actually) effectively meet fundamental human needs?

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