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Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience

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DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON CREATING A FAIRER SOCIETY

A fair society is one that is just, inclusive and embracing of all without any barriers to participation based on sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, ethnicity, age, class, ability or any other social difference. One where there is access to healthcare and education, technology, justice, strong institutions, peace and security, social protection, decent work and housing. But how can research truly contribute to creating global equity and diversity without showcasing diverse voices that are underrepresented in academia or paying specific attention to the Global South?

Including books addressing key challenges and issues within the social sciences which are essential to creating a fairer society for all with specific reference to the Global South, Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society amplifies underrepresented voices – showcasing Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices, authorship from the Global South, and academics who work to amplify diverse voices.

With the primary aim of showcasing authorship and voices from beyond the Global North, the series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate, specifically from and about the Global South in national and international contexts. Harnessing research across a range of diversities of people and place to generate previously unheard insights, the series offers a truly global perspective on the current societal debates of the twenty-first century – bringing contemporary debate in the social sciences from diverse voices to light.

Previous Titles

• Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods: Perspectives from South Asia edited by M. Rezaul Islam

• Pandemic, Politics, and a Fairer Society in Southeast Asia: A Malaysian Perspective edited by Syaza Shukri

• Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South: The Path Toward Environmental Social Justice by Peggy Ann Spitzer

Forthcoming Titles

• Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend edited by Botshabelo Maja and Busani Ngcaweni

• The Socially Constructed and Reproduced Youth Delinquency in Southeast Asia: Advancing Positive Youth Involvement in Sustainable Futures by Jason Hung

• Social Sector Development and Inclusive Growth in India by Ishu Chadda

• Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka: Investigating Citizenship, Development and Democracy Within Global North-South Dynamics by S. Janaka Biyanwila

• Critical Reflections on the Internationalisation of Higher Education in the Global South edited by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Cheryl Qiumei Yu

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Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience: An International Framework

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BEV ORTON

University of Hull, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Contributors

Tolulope Eboka is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Kingston University, London. She gained her PhD at the University of Northampton in 2017. Her areas of research and expertise include criminalisation, gender, race, class and ethnicity, violence, social policy and qualitative methodology. She has worked on questions of systemic discrimination, domestic abuse, marginalised communities, Black History Month, higher education policy and practice, particularly in terms of racialised inequalities. She is a member of the British Society of Criminology and a Senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Basma Taysir El Doukhi is Palestinian Human Rights Activist, Global Challenges Doctoral Scholar in Migration Studies and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent. She has a Master’s degree in the Development and Emergency Practice from Oxford Brookes University. She has been active in humanitarian and development work with displaced people for the past 14 years covering the diverse scope of sectors like community outreach and mobilisation, advocacy, durable solutions, protection and many others with UNHCR, UNRWA and many international NGOs in MENA. She is dedicated and passionate about refugee protection, humanitarian action, advocacy, campaigning and community outreach and development.

Udhia Kumar graduated in Social Work and Psychology in 1995. Since then, he has been practicing in community-based social service centres in Singapore. He is passionate about uplifting families experiencing poverty and violence. He hopes to see families moving on to a better place psychologically and physically.

Kek Seow Ling, a Social Work Practitioner, is trained in restorative practices by the International Institute for Restorative Practices and Asset-Based Community-Driven Development (ABCD) by the Nurture Development, Ireland. Passionate about restorative justice and ABCD, she had used these approaches in her practice in the community setting to advance the well-being of individuals, families and the community. Believing that ‘personal is political’, she is currently involved in advancing the use of restorative justice in domestic violence issues to promote healing.

Lisa Marqua-Harries of RESTORE has worked with young offenders for over 17 years in Cape Town’s Pollsmoor prison. Her work has been underpinned by an MA in Restorative Justice, which she obtained from the University of Hull, and a charity (RESTORE), which she co-founded. Through RESTORE, they facilitate monthly victim awareness programmes. She has travelled extensively presenting about the work in international conferences such as the European Forum for Restorative Justice as well as eight other countries internationally. She is a qualified Mediator through FAMAC and has conducted research for the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation on intergenerational trauma. She is on the steering committee for the South African Coalition for Restorative Justice. She is also part of the Western Cape Collaboration for Youth at Risk Strategies (WCCORYS) Directorship. She is currently piloting a participatory action research project empowering ex-offenders who have been in her classes, now back in their communities to become the researchers. The researchers will develop research skills through this process amongst other skills. She also is co-piloting healing circle spaces, recognising ‘We need to talk’. Many individuals and communities need to be heard and to be given a voice in the arena of peacebuilding and restorative justice.

Ndiweteko Jennifer Nghishitende is a third-year PhD candidate at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, and is working under the supervision of Dr Alicia Heys and Professor Helen Johnston. Her PhD research is on life after modern slavery. She aims to understand women’s journeys of remodelling life after exiting situations of exploitation understood to fall under modern slavery in the UK. She is from Namibia, where she worked in women’s and children’s rights before joining the Wilberforce Institute. She holds a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law, specialising in women’s and children’s rights, from Queen Mary, University of London.

Bev Orton is a Lecturer in Criminology, Restorative Justice, Visual Sociology and Criminology, Gender and Sexuality and Equality and Diversity at the University of Hull. She gained her MEd (Research) from Cambridge University and her PhD from the University of Hull. She was awarded a British Academy Grant for researching mothers and restorative justice. As part of the grant, she worked with the York Youth Offending Team, REMEDI and parents of adolescents who are violent towards their mothers using art techniques to explore their narratives. Recently, she is the Expert Consultant on GlobalGrace. The project works in partnership with the NGO – Sex Workers Advocacy and Education Task Force (SWEAT) based in Cape Town. SWEAT has a 20-year history in organising sex workers, advocating for and delivering services to South African sex workers.

Antony Ou is an Adjunct Lecturer and has been the Programme Manager for the Social Sciences subject area at HKU SPACE (2014–2019) and the Programme Coordinator of Communication, Public Relations and Journalism at HPSHCC (2017–2019). He holds a Master of Philosophy in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Bachelor’s degree with first-class honours from the Department of Public and Social Administration, the City University of Hong Kong. In addition, he has more than a decade of professional experience teaching and researching social sciences areas such as politics, sociology and criminology in various Hong Kong and overseas tertiary institutions. He is now a PhD candidate in Political Theory, the Cardiff University, specialising in modern Confucianism, and a Manager of the Registrar’s Office, Chu Hai College of Higher Education. His publication includes the monograph Just War Theory and Confucian Classics.

Jacob George Panickasseril is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India. He has done his BSc (Chemistry) from Madras Christian College, Chennai, LLB from Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, Delhi University and LLM from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He has professional experience in criminal and civil matters as an Advocate in Delhi (R.P. Kapur & Co.) and Kerala (Nair & Nair Associates). He has been on the editorial board of Perspectives (Delhi University), Journal of Criminal Law & Justice (Nirma University) and Bennett Journal of Legal Studies (Bennett University) (ISSN(O) 2583-4673) and is the Convenor, Publications Committee, School of Law, Bennett University. He has also served as the Faculty Advisor at the Centre for Criminal Law & Justice, Institute of Law, Nirma University and the Moot Court Committee in Nirma University and Bennett University. His areas of interest include criminal law, intellectual property law and international law, and he has presented research papers in NLSIU (Bengaluru), NLUD (Delhi), NUALS (Kochi) and NLUO (Odisha). His papers have been published in NALSAR’s MK Nambyar SAARC Law Journal and Indian Journal of Air & Space Law, NUALS Law Journal, CJAR Handbook on Socio-Economic Offences and the Sesquicentennial Commemorative Volume on the Indian Evidence Act.