Marder, Ian D., Kurz, Katharina, Ibeanu, Isreal and O'Neill, Dáire (2024) Restorative circles for police-community dialogue: a facilitation script from the UBUNTU Project in Dublin, Ireland. Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis, 9 (1). pp. 215-42. ISSN 2009-7170
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Abstract
Few have used restorative practices to structure police-community engagement.
Fewer, still, have published their script after doing so, enabling others to use or
learn from it. This paper presents and explains a script that the authors devised
and used to facilitate a two-day dialogue process between six Gardaí (Irish police
officers) and six young Black adults in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland.
Drawing on literature from the fields of restorative practices and dialogue, the
paper recounts the four stages of the process delivered. It started by 1) establishing relationships, common intentions and norms, before the participants
shared and explored their experiences and perceptions of 2) Blanchardstown and
belonging, 3) policing, and 4) the future.
The article explains the context in which the project and dialogue process took
place, before providing an annotated script to outline the questions asked and
activities undertaken, and explain their rationale. The dialogue process was co-designed by the project lead (Marder), project researcher (Kurz) and young Black
adults and police who received restorative practices training, including one person
from each who, with Marder, co-facilitated the dialogue (Ibeanu, O’Neill).
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Policing; police-community engagement; restorative practices; dialogue; ethnicity; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Law |
Item ID: | 18925 |
Identification Number: | 10.33232/jmaca.9.1.2 |
Depositing User: | Ian Marder |
Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2024 15:12 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis |
Publisher: | Maynooth Academic Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/18925 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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