Restorative justice is not just some pipe dream placebo--it's a time and money saver and stats don't lie: recidivism drops significantly when restorative justice processes are employed. -District Attorney Stanley Garnett (Boulder, CO) The modern day movement of restorative justice continues to evolve at state and community levels. Jurisdictions have [...]

It is laudable that Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder (USA) — despite their shortcomings in other areas — denounced school suspensions last week as the sham they have proven to be. Not only is there no evidence that out-of-school suspensions and zero-tolerance measures improve the school [...]

“Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons [...]

May 2, 2014, 6:04 p.m. | Op-ed — by Olena Tregub and Maciej Bartkowsk The “anti-terrorist operation” the Ukrainian government launched in eastern and southern Ukraine to displace the Russian-backed separatist militia has been a failure. The acting Ukrainian president Oleksandr V. Turchynov himself acknowledged on April 30 that the [...]

By: Erica Chenoweth, Rational Insurgent, May 7, 2014 From the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict newsletter: Scholar Erica Chenoweth, recounts how her research led her to conclude that nonviolent campaigns were succeeding more often than violent campaigns despite a variety of factors that are typically asserted as predetermining such outcomes. She credits the [...]

By URI FRIEDMAN, APR 30 2014, The Atlantic Ruth Buendía Mestoquiari has built her career, and staked the fate of her people, on the law. But she doesn't have a law degree. In fact, she didn't even start elementary school until she was a teenager and didn't finish high school [...]