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The Faith & Belief Forum, with partners Why Me? and Interfaith Glasgow, are exploring how Restorative Justice practices can be applied to address hostility against and between faith communities in Solihull and Glasgow.
The Faith & Belief Forum, with partners Interfaith Glasgow and Why Me?, are exploring how Restorative Justice practices can be applied to address hostility against and between faith communities in Solihull and Glasgow.
Kicked off in November 2023, this 3-year project – funded by The National Lottery Community Fund – will offer faith communities training in restorative practices and principles and support to apply these to faith conflict in their local areas.
This project has three workstreams:
We hope it will be empowering for faith communities in Solihull and Glasgow to reflect on the myriad ways restorative practices could address hostility experienced by faith groups. We know that experiencing hate and prejudice based on your religion, (as well as race, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or perceived membership in any of these groups) can be both deeply upsetting to the individual and can create further waves of harm throughout the wider faith community. Hate and hostility can feel more personal than other crimes; it can feel like “an attack on the core of your identity”, rather than merely bad luck or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We hope RJ will offer not only much needed healing to those who have been subjected to hostility but will also work with those who have caused harm to help them understand the impact of their actions, to reflect on and share about their experience, and give them the opportunity to make amends.
We also expect RJ to be useful as a transformational tool in instances of tension or conflict between diverse communities. In these cases, harm may have been experienced on both sides and a restorative process will enable those involved to listen to each other’s pain and to explore ways forward together.
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Rebecca Collins
rebecca.collins@faithbeliefforum.org