Session 5: Transformative Justice

Core Readings (v.2026)

Audio versions available on Soundcloud

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2014) ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’ [1 page]

Kai Cheng Thom (2020) What to do when you’ve been abusive. Truthout.org

Barnard Centre for Research on Women / Project NIA (2020) The modern roots of transformative justice. [8 min video]

Cradle Community (2021) ‘Transformative Justice in Practice’ & ‘Community Accountability’ extract from Brick by Brick pp. 193-202 (10 pages)

Creative Interventions Project (2020) What is our bigger vision? (Section 1, page 16-17). Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence. [2 pages]

GenerationFive (2017) ‘Community Response and Accountability’ & ‘Transformation of Community and Social Conditions that Create and Perpetuate Violence’ in Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook, p. 56-61 [Online]. [6 pages]

Further reading:

Gaurav Jashnani and RJ Maccani and Alan Greig (2011) What does it feel like when change finally comes?  Male Supremacy, Accountability & Transformative Justice. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. AK Press, pp.216-234. [22 pages]

Chrysalis Collective (2011) Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful: Ending Sexual Assault Through Transformative Justice. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Brooklyn, AK Press, pp.188-205. [18 pages]

Ruth Morris (2000) Stories of Transformative Justice. Canadian Scholars' Press.

 

Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) (2008) ‘Taking Risks: Implementing grassroots community accountability strategies’ The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities [‘zine], p. 64-79

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2020) Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. AK Press

 
 

Resist & Renew (2021) Toolbox: Transformative vs punitive approaches to conflict (30 mins podcast, but see also the chart on the landing page)

TransformHarm.org Resources Hub on ending violence from transformative justice perspective

 
 

Miriam Kaba and Shira Hassan Kaba (2019) Fumbling Towards Repair: A workbook for community accountability. AK Press.