Mar 19, 2021 | News and Updates, Restorative Justice Programs, Restorative Justice Successes
3rd Citywide Roundtable on Restorative Approaches Brings Together Restorative Practitioners On January 10, 2020, Restorative Justice Initiative (RJI), in collaboration with the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution at OATH, hosted the third in a series of convenings... 
Feb 24, 2021 | Messages from Mika, News and Updates
This is the Last Time You’ll Hear Us Mention Amy Cooper Dear Community, You may have seen some news reports this week and last about the disposition of the now infamous Amy Cooper case, in which it was described as restorative justice. While Restorative Justice... 
Nov 3, 2020 | Messages from Mika, News and Updates
What Does Restorative Practice Have to Offer in this Moment? As I begin Election Day 2020, a day that’s sure to be filled with frantic prognostication and analysis in the media, I am asking myself, what does restorative practice have to offer in this moment? In... 
Jul 16, 2020 | News and Updates, Podcasts and Other Media
The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done How do you fix a case of national amnesia? A case study in Berlin, and in Montgomery WNYC’s On The Media recently featured an episode that explores what needs to happen in order for the United States to reckon with and make... 
Jun 15, 2020 | Messages from Mika, News and Updates, Seeking Restorative Justice
A Time of Radical Reimagining Dear Friend of RJI: In 2014 two rookie officers with the NYPD shot a Black man to death on a weekday afternoon on a busy commercial street outside my office window. A pedestrian was also injured by a stray bullet that day. At least a... 
Jun 9, 2020 | News and Updates, Seeking Restorative Justice
An Opening for Restorative Justice in Defunding the Police No More Money for the Police As Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris articulated in a recent New York Times Opinion piece, “We live in a violent society, but the police rarely guarantee safety. Now... 