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People too often enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of the people involved and the end desired. Justice and peace too often serve as abstract ideals or distant shores. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of conflict resolution. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination–the basis of an alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in both just and peaceful ways. He offers practical examples of how analysis, intervention, and evaluation can be rooted in a justpeace imagination.

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What is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including Hollow Water – an Aboriginal and Métis community in Canada renowned for their holistic healing work in the face of 80 per cent sexual abuse rates; the Iona Community – a dispersed Christian ecumenical community in Scotland known for their work towards peace, healing and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship; and Plum Village – a Vietnamese initiated Buddhist community in southern France, and home to Nobel Peace Prize nominated author, Thich Nhat Hanh. These case studies record a search for the kind of social, structural, and spiritual relationships necessary to sustain a healing view of justice. Through comparing cases, Sawatsky identifies the common patterns, themes, and imagination which these communities share. These commonalities among those that practice healing justice are then examined for their implications for wider society, particularly for restorative justice and criminal justice. This innovative book is accessible to those new to the topic, while at the same time being beneficial to experienced researchers, and will appeal internationally to practitioners, students, and anyone interested in restorative justice, law, peace building, and religious studies.

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Als bei Jarem Sawatsky die ersten Symptome einer unheilbaren Nervenerkrankung auftreten, die mit fortschreitenden Bewegungsstörungen, kognitivem und psychischem Abbau verbunden ist, muss er seine Arbeit aufgeben und sich damit abfinden, dass sich sein Gesundheitszustand stetig verschlechtern wird. Mithilfe von Achtsamkeit, Liebe und Mitgefühl gelingt es ihm, sich mit seinem Schicksal zu arrangieren: die Angst vor dem, was kommt, zu überwinden, immer wieder liebevoll loszulassen, was nicht mehr geht, und das zu schätzen und zu würdigen, was (noch) möglich ist. Seine berührende Geschichte zeigt, wie es möglich ist, mit den Elefanten zu tanzen – der Schwere, den Ängsten und dem Leiden mit Leichtigkeit zu begegnen, um auf positive Weise mit dem umzugehen, was wir am meisten fürchten.

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