Restorative Justice as Relationship: A Conversation with Dominic Barter

About this episode

Dominic Barter discusses his experiences and insights on restorative justice and community responses to harm.

In this conversation, restorative justice practitioner Dominic Barter reflects on more than three decades of work at the intersection of community, justice, and nonviolence. Beginning with his early experiences in Rio de Janeiro, he describes how communities already hold a “dialogical” capacity to respond to harm—one rooted in listening, relationship, and shared needs. From grassroots work in favelas to collaborations with courts, prisons, and governments, Barter traces how restorative justic...

People in this episode

Guest: Dominic Barter

Topics covered

• restorative justice
• nonviolence
• community
• dialogue
• relationship
• justice system

Keywords

• restorative justice
• Dominic Barter
• community
• nonviolence
• dialogical capacity
• favelas
• justice system

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Places: Rio de Janeiro

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