Today, we’re talking about one of the only sources of hope, in an area most of us generally feel pretty hopeless about.

When sexual assault occurs, it often changes the lives of the people that are directly involved, and also those around them.  It’s like a pivotal event, a moment in time, that patterns everything that comes afterwards, and the thing that’s so hopeless about it is that there seems to be so little in the way of anything resembling a positive outcome, for anyone.

Restorative Justice is a form of mediation where the fundamental idea is that the people that were involved in an incident, actually sit down and try and work out what justice might look like.

Rog, from Curious Creatures https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/, has a revealing, intimate, and compelling conversation with:

– Fiona Landon, from Project Restore, in New Zealand.  Project Restore’s vision is for a New Zealand that is free from violence, and they do this through providing world-class Restorative Justice services, tailored to the needs of sexual assault. They can be found at  https://projectrestore.nz/.

– David Karp is a professor with Skidmore University, USA.  He’s been a researcher, coordinator, and practitioner of Restorative Justice services in the university campus context for 15 years. He can be found at  https://www.skidmore.edu/sociology/faculty/karp.php.