“Restorative justice is a constellation of ideas, practices, and people connected by a shared commitment to transforming injustice into justice via encounters of humanization and repair.”
In 2023 and 2024 I partnered with the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University to develop a series of five lectures titled “Restorative Justice: A Global Movement to Transform Harm.” These lectures are part of a “short-course” that includes a few accessible readings or videos alongside my 20-ish minute lectures. 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. I hope this series of lectures serves both as an introduction to restorative justice for those seeking to learn more and as an impetus for further conversations, scholarship, and practice that centers the wisdoms of those Indigenous, religious, and oppressed communities that have led the way in inviting the world to rethink what justice is and looks like. You can find links to each individual lecture and set of readings below:
Dr. James W. McCarty 