Prof. James McCarty produces Restorative Justice Lecture Series for Canopy Forum
Boston University School of Theology is pleased to announce that Clinical Assistant Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation and Director of the Tom Porter Religion and Conflict Transformation Program James McCarty recently published a series of five lectures titled “Restorative Justice: A Global Movement to Transform Harm.” His lectures were made possible by the Canopy Forum, a digital publication site for the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, which seeks to “foster productive public discourse on critical issues at the intersection of law and religion.”
“In this series I interpret the story of restorative justice as a globally connected one that understands justice as a series of mutually-informed experiments in anticolonial (broadly construed) and religious visions of justice that center both healing and accountability,” says Prof. McCarty. “This is not the dominant way the story of restorative justice is often told in politics or academic settings, but this way of telling and interpreting uncovers the Indigenous and religious roots of restorative justice that get ignored or obscured by that dominant story. My hope is that this serves as an accessible resource for people who want to learn more about restorative justice and for those who are shaping its future.”
My hope is that this serves as an accessible resource for people who want to learn more about restorative justice and for those who are shaping its future.
Prof. McCarty’s restorative justice series joins a list of featured lectures on the Canopy Forum website that include topics such as Crisis of Houses of Worship, Religion and its Publics in South Asia, and The Promise and Perils of Religious Arbitration.
Lecture 1: Indigenous Roots of Restorative Justice: The Story of Peacemaking Circles (19:42)
Lecture 2: Mennonites and Restorative Justice: The Story of Victim-Offender Conferencing (17:59)
Lecture 3: Aboriginal Justice: The Story of Family Group Conferences in New Zealand and Elsewhere (14:55)
Lecture 4: The Challenges of Transitional Justice: The Story of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and Beyond (32:40)
Lecture 5: Emergent Directions for Restorative Justice as Racial Justice: Musings on Possible Future (23:14)