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Peacemaking Circles are used in neighborhoods to provide support for those harmed by crime and to decide sentences for those who commit crime, in schools to create positive classroom climates and resolve behavior problems, in the workplace to deal with conflict, and in social services to develop more organic support systems for people struggling to get their lives together. The Circle process hinges on storytelling. It is hard work, but it is an effort bringing asto… More >>
The Little Book of Circle Processes : A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking
The Little Book of Circle Processes takes on a most importanat strategy for dealing with conflict – whether in the family or in the community. And it does it very well in the limited space of this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the first of my assigned books for a class this semester, and now I’m kind of afraid to go to class. Its only 73 pages, so luckily the agony didn’t last very long and even more happily, there are 8 other books for the class, and hopefully many of them will be less cutesy. I gave this 2 stars mainly because the writing style is clear, concise and easy to understand. There were no points where I had to re-read in order to understand the lesson involved. It is intended to be an introductory book to the idea of Peace Circles, and it does it very well.
On the other hand, the subject matter itself made me gag. To give a simple definition of Peace Circles as I understood it from this book: Take group therapy, throw in a half-trained instructor who is into New Age jargon and thinks white, industrialized cultures all suck. Force some “enlightened” spirituality down people’s throats and and have no rules of conduct at all except that everyone has to talk in order. Oh, and to top things off, make them talk in order while hanging on to some sort of object (called a “talking point”) so that everyone will feel like they are in grade school and no one can actually respond to anything anyone says. Might be good for solving grade school problems, but for a criminal justice class?
Rating: 2 / 5