폭력 극복을 위한 생물학적, 평화교육적 단초: 디퓨징과 서클 프로세스

Abstract

This study starts from the view that it is time to correct our approach to violence prevention in a radical way, in order to improve the prevailing standards within our society. We cannot address the problem of violence at its root through retributive punishment. Moreover, violence and its related behaviors are not independent or closed events and behaviors, but contain an inter-related and complex web of connections. Thus, if one wants to change the reality of violence, one must consider the entangled chains of cause and effect as a whole and prescribe a relevant treatment for it as a whole. The fact that such violent behaviors have and continue to happen relentlessly implies an urgent need to understand the matter of violence in a fundamentally new way, instead of punishing the criminal, the inflicter, on the basis of the result of such violent acts. Violence or violent behavior since its incident generates more problems and causes other violence. Its effect may last throughout the the life-times of victims and related persons. In other words, retributive or judicial punishment cannot prevent violence, and is likely the cause of other social problems related to it. In this context, this study examines the cause of violence from the perspective of human nature. In doing so, this study seeks to look beyond judicial justice or retributive justice, which regards the incidents as crimes and which punishes the criminals and tries to compensate the victims, for ‘Restorative Justice’, which aims at peace in terms of sincere forgiveness and reconciliation by examining ‘Circle Process,’ which is the practical alternative of ‘Restorative Justice’ program, from a religious-educational perspective.