Search Results for restorative justice
Children’s Peacemaker Training
This is an opportunity to invite the Metta Center for Nonviolence to your classroom, school, or homeschool setting. The skills of peacekeeping and peacemaking are not just for grown-ups. Children experience conflict as often, if not more, than adults because they are still navigating their own ability to understand the world around them. Many adults… read more
Simple Logic: Daily Metta
“The more we punish, the more persistent crimes become.” ~ Gandhi, Young India, April 30, 1925 Exactly this was said by Chief Justice Herb Yazzie of the Navajo Supreme Court: “You will never have enough jail space if your purpose is to punish” (quoted in Navajo Times Dec. 29, 2011, p. A-3). If only we… read more
No Escape: Daily Metta
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” ~ Gandhi, Young India, March 12, 1925 While this may sound harsh—and the context was artificial methods of birth control —there’s a very uplifting assumption behind it, or rather, two: 1) that the universe is not a punishing place but a… read more
High Standards: Daily Metta
“Still the community stood unmoved; only the weaklings slipped away. But even the weaklings had done their best. Let us not despise them.” ~ Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 206 Our Mahatma treads a fine line between demanding the best of everyone around him and compassion for them when they did not rise to… read more
To Sanders’ Supporters: An Open Letter
Dear friends, I share your frustration and your anger over the outcome of the Democratic (?) National Convention. I’ve had my share. There is a place for anger; but there is also a way to use it. Anger is power. The revolution launched by Senator Sanders has accomplished amazing results. The point is now… read more
Eyes on the Prize: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video!
Here, Michael Nagler discusses some successful ways that people around the world have instituted restorative justice. We need to “keep our eyes on the prize,” he tells us, by seeing the good hidden in the heart of every person. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director,… read more
Exploring Gandhi’s Nai Talim
The following post is the second one based on my talk at the India Center in Charleston, WV for Gandhi Day 2015. Please read Part 1 here. What can we learn from Gandhi’s ideas about Nai Talim (new education) and how can we apply them to our context now? How can (must) education be a… read more
Peace Above All: Newsletter
Isn’t it clear yet that war is not the answer? At the Metta Center, we envision a world transformed by an awareness of the true potential of every human being, where all of life is sacred and where all our social systems work in harmony with the earth. We see a world in which conflict… read more
Looking Beyond “Policing the Police”
I recently listened to an interview with filmmaker Stanley Nelson by NPR, “Policing the Police”: How the Black Panthers Got Their Start. As I listened to the interview, I kept circling back to parallels that can be seen as much today as then: our police forces are not made up of members from the communities… read more
