METOO AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

While some victims may be comfortable with direct communication with their assaulter, others will not. [...]when victims and perpetrators are willing to discuss repair, representatives and neutrals may be particularly valuable in facilitating mutual understanding. Even those who acknowledge their past misdeeds seem to have little concrete to offer on this front. [...]vows to stop engaging in wrongful behavior must be more than promises. [...]pressuring a victim to forgive can inflict additional harm, which for people who have been assaulted is particularly troublesome as it magnifies their original loss of agency. * ABA SECTION OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION This article is an abridged and edited version of one that originally appeared on page 16 of Dispute Resolution Magazine, Winter 2019 (25:2).