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Iran: restorative justice and principled engagement

By John Braithwaite|2017-10-18T06:33:59+11:008 June 2016|Categories: Crime, Criminal Law, Restorative Justice, Restorative Practice|Tags: criminal law, forgiveness, Iran, restorative justice, scholarly engagement|

For 24 days in May I enjoyed wonderful hospitality in Iran as a guest of Dr Mohammad Farajiha of Tarbiat Modares University. With his inspiring group of graduate students, Dr Farajiha organized a culminating conference in Tehran on Restorative Justice in Iran*, which was attended by visiting scholars from […]

Rethinking forgiveness

Nicola Lacey and Hanna Pickard[1] draw upon the evolutionary psychology literature in a recent paper to find that both vengeance and forgiveness are universal human adaptations that have evolved as alternative responses to exploitation. This is why all cultures have both retributive traditions (that are more concentrated on out-groups such as invaders) and […]