Title: Ethics, universal principles and restorative justice
Abstract: Proponents of community mediation, community justice, victim-offender
mediation, alternative dispute resolution and, recently, restorative justice
have consistently championed the ethical bases of their proposed initiatives.
They advocate a foundation in restorative values and through associated
practices seek to deploy a justice different from that offered by criminal
justice arrangements. The quest for alternative visions of justice places their
discourse squarely within an indeterminate realm of ethics that Grayling
summarizes as, ‘thinking and theorizing about what is good and bad, and how
people should live’ (2003: ix). However, when focusing on justice per se one
is specifically concerned with what Plato, all those years before, understood
as the branch of ethical knowledge where we learn how to live virtuously
as harmonious selves who are equally in harmony with others in society
(The Republic, Part 5, Book 4). Combining such ideas, one might identify a
framing context for the discussion of this chapter as a rather specific area of
ethics – i.e., thinking and theorizing about ‘how people should live’ in order
to restore just relations with one another after experiencing an injustice (see
also Sharpe 2004).
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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