Restorative Based Conflict Resolution
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Introduction to Restorative Approaches
What is Restorative Practices?
Conflict
Conflict is a natural, expected, and unavoidable aspect of personal and workplace relations. Conflict, when navigated constructively, can foster innovative solutions and ultimately strengthen trust among team members.
Understanding Conflict
About Conflict
- What is conflict? (Lumen Learning)
- Tools and Resources for Conflict Resolution (edX)
Conflict Styles
- Five Styles of Responding to Conflict (Riverhouse ePress)
- Conflict Styles Assessment (United States Institute of Peace)
- Conflict Management Styles (Reginald (Reg) Adkins, PhD, Elemental Truths)
- What's Your Conflict Management Style? (Walden University)
- 5 Conflict Management Styles and When to Use Them (Business Management Daily)
Restorative Practices
Rooted in peacemaking and justice practices of Native American, First Nation, and other Indigenous peoples, Restorative Practices seek to acknowledge harm, repair relationship, and strengthen community.
Understanding Restorative Practices
About
- What is Restorative Justice? Hartford Justice Center
- Restorative Practices: What Are They and Why Are They Important for Workplace Conflict? Aspen Restorative Consulting, New Zealand
Context
- Restorative Practice: History, Successes, Challenges & Recommendations (Marsh, V., Center for Urban Education Success, 2017)
- Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools, An Updated Research Review (Fronius, et. al., WestEd Justin & Prevention Research Center, 2019)
- Restorative Justice and Student Development in Higher Education: Expanding 'Offender' Horizons Beyond Punishment and Rehabilitation to Community Engagement and Growth (Karp & Frank, Offenders No More, 2016)
Tools
Affective Statements
- Affective Statements (Los Angeles Unified School District, 2020)
- Restorative Practices Part 1: Affective Statements and Community Circles (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, New York, 2019)
Fair Process
- Using Fair Process to Make Better Decisions (The Management Center)
- Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy (Harvard Business Review, 2003)
Social Discipline Window
- Social Discipline Window (United Kingdom Department of Education)
- Social Discipline Window (Dee Lindenberger with Strategic Alternatives in Prevention Education)
General Resources
- Restorative Communication Handout (Spokane Public Schools, 2019)
- A Restorative Conversation Toolkit (Project Nia, Chicago, 2021)
- Restorative Practice Handouts (Jefferson County Public Schools, 2016)
- Restorative Practices: A Toolkit for Educators (Santa Clara County Office of Education, 2022)
- Introduction to Restorative Conversations (Abolitionist Toolbox)
- Restorative Practices vs. Restorative Justice (ReSolutionaries, Inc.)
- Restorative Justice in the Workplace (University of Texas at Austin)
- Gryphon Place Restorative Practices
GVSU Implementation
- Restorative-Based Alternative Dispute Resolution K. Evans, C. Grooms, Reach Higher Showcase 2023
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Needs Assessment Survey Results, E. Ortega-Schultz, E. Shupe, 2022
- Four Essential Skills for Managing Differences and Resolving Conflict J. Hodge, Ph.D., 2011
- A Study of Mediation Practices in Higher Education Institutions in the Midwest D. Pace, S. Swift, M. Bedikian, CUPA-HR Journal, Fall/Winter 2005