What is restorative justice?

Finally, a comprehensive humanities book on restorative justice has been published in Korea, introducing a comprehensive understanding of restorative justice and its practical applications.
Since 2000, recommendations to expand restorative justice for safe and peaceful social communities have been growing worldwide, including at the UN.
In Korea, too, voices have been growing louder in the judiciary, schools, and even workplaces, calling for the adoption of a restorative justice approach to overcome the limitations of the existing retributive justice approach, which deals with conflicts and disputes between people solely through punishment.
Nevertheless, it was regrettable that there was no comprehensive data showing the philosophical background, development history, and domestic and international trends of what restorative justice means.
Recently, Peace Building Publishing, run by a restorative justice specialist organization, published a new book titled “Restorative Justice, Healing the World.”
This book vividly captures the theoretical background of the restorative justice paradigm, its expansion overseas, and the author's long-standing domestic practice of restorative justice.
From restorative schools and restorative justice to restorative organizations, restorative justice practices that have been attempted in many areas of society experiencing everyday conflict are introduced, persuasively demonstrating to readers why restorative justice approaches must be expanded in our society.
It introduces unique experiments that are not easily found in other countries, such as restorative families that apply the restorative justice paradigm to families, stories of restorative hospitals that are being implemented in hospitals, and stories of restorative apartments that are trying to transform apartment complexes, which have been the sites of numerous conflicts in Korea, into restorative apartment communities.