Restorative Justice Approach

Appreciative inquiry, restorative justice, and interest-based mediation are clearly mechanisms in my assessment that can function clearly and definitively in certain ways as facilitating reconciliation between humans and the Divine, and between humans. The distinctive characteristics of each approach relate in a strong sense to this assertion of compassion, and display of empathy, so that common ground can be found and mutual benefits can be pursued by the disputing parties. Appreciative inquiry is essentially exploring what is working well and figuring out how to focus on this and expand on it. This is a model that some companies have begun to use that focuses on what is working effectively and productively in their firms, and therefore …show more content…
In a dispute situation, or a litigation situation, restorative justice is an alternative to punitive justice. In turn, this adversarial component is not present in the restorative justice approach. The parties in dispute, or the victims and offenders in a litigation case, are seeking to restore justice through active, meaningful dialogue. The restorative justice process is distinctive by having the parties in conflict or dispute attempting to find the beneficial, positive outcome that actually restores the community at large to a state of real justice. In essentially digs deeper into the more abstract, spiritual principles, and indeed can refer to the Divine, or Higher Power, or God/Allah, in regards to representing the ultimate source of real justice. Instead of being a state of law, justice is considered a higher, enlightened ideal state of mind and existence that all humans strive for, and that it can be found in the abstract realm of knowledge that Socrates and Plato believed it existed …show more content…
This is an approach to bargaining that focuses on win-win scenarios for both parties involving intensive collaboration and cooperation to find common ground and work for an agreeable solution for everyone involved in the dispute or conflict. This is an approach that demands empathy, compassion, humility, and honesty. In other words, interest-based mediation is in a real sense a spiritual approach to resolving disputes by reaching into the abstract realm of higher knowledge that Socrates and Plato asserted way back in the times of ancient Greece. In the mainstream religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, these are religious ethical principles. People are expected to be honest, humble, compassionate, and merciful when being members of these religious groups. Likewise in interest-based mediation, the parties coming into the negotiations are expected to strive for collaboration, cooperative, and empathetic expressions so that everyone wins and nobody