Reconciliation Archives | John Braithwaite

The Frustrations of Royal Commissions

Australians were rightly ashamed last week to see the Four Corners program on brutality against children at the Don Dale Detention Centre in the Northern Territory. Yes, it is to our credit as a people that we can feel national disgust at this and establish a Royal Commission to report on what we need […]

Was this the biggest restorative justice meeting known?

By John Braithwaite|2017-10-18T06:33:58+11:0026 July 2016|Categories: Nonviolence, Reconciliation, Restorative Justice, War|Tags: Aleksandar Marsavelski, former Yugoslavia, Furtuna Sheremeti, Kosovo|

During the campaign against blood feuds in Kosovo the largest reconciliation meeting was a gathering at Verrat e Llukës on 1 May 1990 where even the official Tanjung Agency of the Yugoslav regime reported 100,000 participants. Leaders of the reconciliation guessed 500,000 in the crowd. Parts of this event can be viewed in the following video: […]