When Andy Norton joins an evangelism team headed for West Berlin during the height of the Vietnam War, he thinks he has all the answers. Little does he realize the experience will become a crucible that forces him to reevaluate virtually everything he believes. In the spirit of the best coming-of-age tales, Chrysalis Crucible takes readers on a journey of discovery, transformation, and rebirth.

Chrysalis Crucible

Literature & Fiction

Northey, Wayne

Genre Fiction

Fresh Wind Press

Justice That Transforms, Volume One

Restorative Justice was a term and concept largely unused before the mid-1970s. Wayne Northey happened to be in on the ground floor of facilitating its worldwide adoption as a challenge to Western retributive justice systems, ultimately to violent responses to conflict domestically and internationally. The most replicated early model of Restorative Justice, based on the well-known “Elmira Case,” was a Canadian first, initially dubbed Victim Offender Reconciliation Project(VORP). The author became its second director in 1977. The term “mediation” later displaced the more religious word, “reconciliation,” as the model spread outside Christian moorings; and “program” displaced the initially more tentative “project.” 
At seminary, Northey had learned to think through one’s vocation theologically. He began in that vein, writing and publishing on this profound call for a systemic “paradigm shift,” and has been at it ever since. This publication is volume 1 of a series of his collected writings, of which two additional volumes may be found online. Two or three further volumes are projected.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Resource Publications

Resource Publications (CA)

My good friend and scholar, Ron Dart, proposed that I pull together my Restorative Justice writings, to publish them on Amazon and Kindle, at least. Since I had done a few publications that way (only one written by me, though I had written Forewords each time), I acted on the idea. I've asked Ron Dart to write the Foreword. He is also a prolific author and avid educator.There will be at least a second collected volume of writings. Why publish these now? Because I can might be as good an answer! Because as well they may be of historical interest. And because they give opportunity to put "out there" the continued joy and prospect of this peacemaking work.These writings were first gathered, edited, and uploaded onto a website, project of my retirement years, from 2014 onwards. They obviously are repetitious: Copy and Paste commands were used. Other than copy-editing, for the most part they are included as were. Most contain Bibliographies; no general Bibliography though at the end of the book.If you purchased the printed book and wish to pursue the blue highlights mostly in the introductions to each chapter, you may of course also purchase the Kindle ereader version that enables the highlights as clickables, and also renders all the footnotes that way, and other goodies such as x-ray as well. Or you may for free seek out whichever material on the website. I cannot vouch for all the blue highlights working. URL addresses do sometimes change. The reader may therefore need to do (if wished) additional sleuthing...And the usual disclaimer: all errors I own!Wayne Northey, with gratitude and joy for this lifelong journey, September 2018

Justice That Transforms (Restorative Justice Writings by Wayne Northey)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Independently published

Justice That Transforms: Volume Two

Social Sciences

My good friend and scholar, Ron Dart, proposed that I pull together my Restorative Justice writings, to publish them on Amazon and Kindle, at least. Since I had done a few publications that way (only one written by me, though I had written Forewords each time), I acted on the idea. This is Volume Three of a multivolume set.Throughout most of the nineties I worked in the Restorative Justice field for Mennonite Central Committee Canada, that granted me a high perch from which to observe the increasing North American and worldwide awareness of this emerging phenomenon. That decade was a kind of spreading-wings time of creating awareness, honing theory, delivering practice, and producing research. Criminal justice jurisdictions began encountering Restorative Justice in North America and worldwide. Many publications started emerging alongside beginnings of evidence-based research on impacts of this often-claimed "paradigm shift" in dealing with perpetrators and people who were offended against. Whole conferences and umbrella organizations were organized and formed to promote Restorative Justice and share expertise, the term "best practices" often employed. Programs in many parts of the world began cross-pollinating as attempts at supplying precise definition and standards of practice proliferated. Institutions of higher learning commenced teaching it; governments started embracing and funding it; and critics, in particular from the "victim" community, were analysing and at times condemning it as pro-offender and naïve. Some even accused it of being nothing more than "compulsory compassion" foisted on "victims" that left them further wounded; "justice" even perhaps more denied while perpetrators were all but "let off the hook." Its sheer mushrooming across the planet within mere decades precluded "controls" that might have headed off some of the at times legitimate attacks. But crime victim communities ("victim" a term that rightly should be for the most part displaced in favour of "those whom crime impacts" or the like) embraced Restorative Justice as well. There will be at least a fourth and fifth volume of collected writings. Then I will publish a series of monographs on Peace/Peacemaking, tentatively titled: "Justice That Yields Peace." Why publish now? Because I can might be as good an answer! Because as well they may be of historical interest. And because they give opportunity to put "out there" the continued joy and prospect of peacemaking work.

Justice That Transforms: Volume Three

History

World

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