Resources
books
- The Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume (general/community)
- The Little Book Of… [series](community/schools/criminal legal/etc.)
- Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School Community (schools)
- Doing Democracy with Circles: Engaging Communities in Public Planning (general/community)
- Peacemaking Circles: From Conflict to Community (general/community)
- Peacemaking Circles and Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home (criminal legal)
- Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (general/community/nonprofits)
- Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (general/community)
- Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (criminal legal)
Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities (general/community)
documentaries + media
- CIRCLE UP (general/criminal legal)
- CIRCLES (schools/criminal legal)
- Ever After: Stories of Violence, Accountability, and Healing (general/criminal legal)
- The Interrupters (criminal legal)
- Restoring Hope (community)
- Beyond Conviction (criminal legal)
- Tribal Justice (community)
- The Prison Within (criminal legal)
- The Worst Thing (criminal legal)
- As We Forgive (community/TRC)
- We Came to Heal (youth)
- The Meeting (criminal legal/sexual violence)
- Schools resolve conflicts by getting kids to talk things out (schools)
- They Treated Me Like a Person: Inside the Red Hook Community Justice Center (community/youth)
- A New Story of Justice: Nonviolence and Restorative Justice (general/criminal legal)
- Restorative Practices History and Overview (general/youth)
- What a world without prisons could look like (criminal legal)
- Breaking Bows and Arrows (community)
- Dawnland (community/TRC)
education + Training
- International Institute for Restorative Practices
- Lehman College Continuing Education Certificate Programs
- Eastern Mennonite University: The Center for Justice and Peacebuiding
- University of Minnesota Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
- Planning Change
- The Restorative Center
- Integral Justice
- The Circle Way
- Center for Restorative Justice
- Living Justice Press
- Zehr Institute
- National Center on Restorative Justice
- Planning Change
- Center for Restorative Justice, University of San Diego
national organizations
- Restorative Justice Initiative (community)
- Restore Circles (Indigenous, community)
- Restorative Justice on The Rise (community)
- Roca, Inc. (youth)
- National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (community)
- Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (community/schools)
- Equal Justice USA (criminal legal)
- IntegrateNYC (schools)
- Center for Justice – Columbia University (criminal legal)
- Center for Court Innovation (community/criminal legal/intimate partner violence/schools)
- Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (architecture)
- Common Justice
- Hidden Water (community, sexual/interpersonal violence)
- Impact Justice (community, criminal legal, youths)
- Talking Peace (community, communication)
- Detroit Justice Center (criminal legal)
- Project Nia (community, criminal legal)
- Restorative Justice Colorado (community)
- Restorative Response Baltimore (community)
- Circles for Social Change (community)
- Amplify RJ (community)
- Restorative Justice Partnership (schools)
- The Ahimsa Collective (community, criminal legal)
- Circles & Ciphers (schools, youth)
- Ampersands Restorative Justice (sexual harm)
- Vermont Restorative Approaches Collaborative (community, schools)
- Restorative Justice Project at the Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison (criminal legal)
- Oakland Unified School District (schools)
- Domestic Violence Safe Dialogues (interpersonal violence)
- Youth Restorative Justice Team (youth, schools)
- Dignity in Schools (schools)
other resources
- The Restorative Justice City map (general/communnity)
- Youth Justice Toolkit: A Community-Led Restorative Justice Approach (youth/criminal legal)
- Denver School-Based Restorative Practices Partnership Implementation Guide (schools)
- Parent-to-Parent Guide to Restorative Justice in the Chicago Public Schools from COFI (also available in Spanish) (schools)
- Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings (community/TRC)
- The Dawn of System Leadership (general)
- Credible Messenger Justice Center (community/criminal legal)
- The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go From Here? (schools)
- Restorative Justice Responses to Environmental Harm (general/environment)
- Exploring Alternative Responses to Hate Crimes (community/criminal legal)
- Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration (criminal legal)
- Restorative Justice in Schools: A Whole-School Implementation Process (schools)
- Messaging Guidance for Restorative Justice and Rethinking Discipline (schools)
- Reparations Guide (3rd Edition) from Coming To The Table (TRC)
- White Ally Toolkit (community)
- The Toolkit Before the Toolkit: Centering Adaptive and Relational Elements of Restorative Practices for Implementation Success (schools)
- “… and they cared”: How to Create Better, Safer Learning Environments for Girls of Color (schools)
- Can Restorative Practices Address Intimate Partner Violence? (interpersonal violence)
