The problem, plainly. Most justice systems today are reactive — designed to respond after harm has already happened, largely through punishment, with comparatively little structural investment in preventing that harm in the first place. Real safety and mere punishment have quietly become treated as the same thing, when they’re often not.
The question we’re asking. What does a system built around genuine safety and repair — rather than control and punishment — actually look like, in practice, at community scale?
What’s happening in this Initiative. Members are researching restorative justice models already piloted in various places, examining root causes of harm rather than just its symptoms, and drafting frameworks for community-based accountability that don’t rely on the current system’s assumptions.
How to get involved. Open to Full-tier members. This work benefits enormously from people with lived experience of the current system, in any capacity — that perspective is treated as expertise here, not as a footnote.