Mass volunteering for literacy to make a nation-sized deposit in the bank account of social capital.

‘Border’, by the writer Kapka Kassabova, is a book about escape, injustice, and exile on the border regions between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey, particularly during the period of the Cold War.

Restorative Justice methods are structured and contained, which is why they work very well with children, and because the process is voluntary and the trained Facilitator ‘multi-partial’, the atmosphere throughout is power ‘with’, not power ‘over’ the parties involved.

To sum up, whatever the circumstance of harm – bullying in the workplace or breakdown of friendships at school – only pursuing punitive methods limits learning and therefore the opportunity for changing our behaviour in relationships.

Get to grips with the vocabulary of Restorative Justice in this easy to understand guide.