Search Results for restorative justice
Love at the barrel of a gun
Original content for Transformation at OpenDemocracy.net, posted on 1 November 2013. Violence can only be overcome by love. An armed intruder meets an unexpected response at an elementary school in Georgia. Memorial at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Credit: Shutterstock. All rights reserved. When Antoinette Tuff was confronted by a would-be mass killer in the entry hall… read more
Trayvon Martin: The Neglected Story that Implicates Us All
After World War II, US Navy personnel carried out an experiment in germ warfare. They spent several days spraying lethal bacteria into the fog around San Francisco Bay. The “experiment” killed at least one person, whose grandchildren sued the government years later when the facts became public under the Freedom of Information Act. Norman Cousins… read more
Nonviolence Currents: Talking About Trayvon
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence It’s summertime, and your school may not be in session, but right now, whether you are an educator or parent, you have probably been giving a lot of thought to Trayvon Martin, and your students or… read more
Nonviolence Currents: “Students push to limit school police after Newtown”
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence LESSON PLAN #4 Waging Nonviolence Article: Students push to limit school police after Newtown Themes: Restorative justice, state politics, school safety Target age group: Ages 14 & up Subject areas: Language Arts, Social Studies, Government Pre-reading… read more
Strategic Advisory Council
The Metta Center is proud to work with the following individuals who serve on our Strategic Advisory Council (SAC). Members meet with Metta staff four times a year to advise on innovations for Metta’s materials, explore opportunities to reach new communities and generate collective insight into nonviolent movements worldwide. The majority of SAC members have… read more
Roadmap Description
From Zuccotti Park to Tahrir Square, a groundswell of popular discontent has arisen to confront the menacing problems and deplorable injustice of the present world order. It is clear, however, that these manifestations were just the beginning. Roadmap is a way to get “from spontaneous protest to unstoppable movement,” to address the deepest underlying issues… read more
Feminist Spiritual Politics: Getting Personal About Gun Control
The personal is the political, has always struck me as incomplete. It was Teilhard de Chardin who first said “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” The ‘personal is the political’ assumes an incomplete worldview, a cosmology of separation where the individual is forced to turn… read more
Grief is Not Enough
Originally posted at Tikkun Magazine: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/12/15/grief-is-not-enough-reflections-on-the-connecticut-shooting/ “We are heartbroken, yes. But saying that will fix nothing. It won’t bring anyone back, and it won’t keep this from happening again.” This lament by Lisa Belkin in yesterday’s Huffington Post is self-evidently true. Our hearts have been broken over and over – at Columbine, in… read more
Gaza: A time to reflect
by Michael Nagler This partial check to the mad violence unleashed last week on Gaza, while it comes as a great relief to all of us, should also be an opportunity to refocus our determination that this violence stop happening, and never happen anywhere again. The big picture is this: we live in a violent… read more
Constructive Program-Building the Solution as Resistance
Since the age of 15 Nicholas has been particularly interested in the philosophical and spiritual aspects of principled nonviolence and Gandhian thought. He has been with the Metta since 2011 as an intern and assistant. He recently completed Metta’s summer research fellowship on constructive program by creating a self-study audio lesson, an annotated bibliography, and… read more
