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Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution

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Contents:

  • Key Concepts
  • Additional Resource Lists
  • Tools
  • Books
  • Podcasts & Videos
  • News Clippings
  • Research
  • Organisiations & Services
  • Newly-added Resources

Note: Many of the listed resources link to content that includes discussions of violence and abusive behaviours which may have intense connotations or bring up difficult feelings and memories. Please consider ensuring that you are in a safe location and have options for support if needed.

Key Concepts

Community Accountability

Community accountability is a strategy for creating environments where it is possible to be accountable to address violence within our communities (rather than relying on the police/prison-based punitive system).

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Transformative Justice

Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community - including developing various harm-reduction processes to interpersonal violence within communities at the grassroots level rather than relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing.
See: What is Transformative Justice? - A video by Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Stas Schmiedt, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, Martina Kartman, Priya Rai, and Shira Hassa (2020)

Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community - including developing various harm-reduction processes to interpersonal violence within communities at the grassroots level rather than relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. See, Beyond Survival, edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2020)

Restorative Justice

Restorative justice practices develop processes "whereby parties with a stake in a specific offence collectively resolve how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future" ALRC. While these approaches can contribute to transformative justice, sometimes they function as an adjunct to punitive systems of justice (e.g., see the ADRC History of Restorative Justice in Australia and, for a critique, the Undercurrent Podcast on Principles and Frameworks for Accountability)

"Transformative justice is a decolonizing and anti-oppression approach [that] addresses oppression by systems of domination, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, elitism, classism, and ableism within all domestic, interpersonal, global, and community conflicts. In short, transformative justice is restorative justice plus social justice. Transformative justice expands the social justice model, which challenges and identifies injustices, in order to create organized processes of addressing and ending those injustices." Transformative Justice Journal (2020) Vol 1.1 p.2

Additional Resource Lists

Tools

Books

Podcasts & Videos

News Clippings

Research

Organisations & Services

Further Questions

  • How are social change movements within Australia incorporating community-approaches to interpersonal conflict - both within these movements and in terms of facilitating community-based accountability and justice practices within broader society?
  • How might community-approaches to justice be relevant to settlers practicing accountability (individually and collectively) for the harms experienced by Indigenous people as a result of historical and ongoing colonial practices?

If you have thoughts on these questions and/or additional materials that should be included in this list, please contact the Commons Librarians.

Newly-added Resources (to be add to relevant sections and to Commons Library version)

A list of audio-recordings of key transformative justice resources Alternative Justices Project - updated website 2022
AORTA Coop - Antioppression Resource and Training Alliance - a small worker-owned co-op offereing resources, facilitation, coaching, and training in antioppression practices.

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Date created: 2021
Version: Draft 5.0
Also see: the published version (3.0)
Created for: The Commons Social Change Library
Attribution: created by E. T. Smith on unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.

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