Preface: Rights and Restoration

The human rights movement is an older and stronger global movement than the social movement for restorative justice, and so are the peace movement, the women's movement, indigenous rights movements, the children's rights movement, the animal rights movement, and the environmental movement. Creatively conceived, these are all related social movements against domination and arbitrary power, and advocates of humbling power. The arbitrary powers that must be humbled include overreaching state power, corporate power, institutions that are hegemonically male, prisons, and militaries. These diverse movements differentially focus on these sources of power.