Reading: Shallow Wildfire Stories - Slides

Restoring Relationships

Lecture 4

Shallow Wildfire Stories and Retributive Justice

Shallow Wildfire Stories

A shallow wildfire story is a conflict story that labels an offender in a narrow and shallow manner.

Shallow Wildfire Stories

A shallow wildfire story is a conflict story that labels an offender in a narrow and shallow manner.

The labels in a shallow wildfire story focus on the offensive or criminal aspects of the offender’s behavior.

Shallow Wildfire Stories

A shallow wildfire story is a conflict story that labels an offender in a narrow and shallow manner.

The labels in a shallow wildfire story focus on the offensive or criminal aspects of the offender’s behavior.

In a retributive justice system, an offender can receive a label that follows him/her for the rest of their life.

Transforming Justice

The labels of punitive/retributive justice systems can become self-fulfilling prophecies that result in a cycle of criminal behavior when an offender accepts the labels given by the system and society.

Transforming Justice

The labels of punitive/retributive justice systems can become self-fulfilling prophecies that result in a cycle of criminal behavior when an offender accepts the labels given by the system and society.

Retributive justice applies punishment and accountability for wrongdoing, but if often fails to restore important relationships.

Transforming Justice

Relationships between offenders and their victims.

Relationships between victims and the justice system.

Relationships between offenders and society, even after offenders have paid the debt for their crimes or wrongdoing. 

Transforming Justice

Retributive justice often prevents offenders from moving forward with their lives after their release from the system.

Transforming Justice

Retributive justice often prevents offenders from moving forward with their lives after their release from the system.

When we respond to conflict wildfires by focusing on the wildfire and our desired outcome, we write shallow wildfire stories. 

Transforming Justice

Retributive justice often prevents offenders from moving forward with their lives after their release from the system.

When we respond to conflict wildfires by focusing on the wildfire and our desired outcome, we write shallow wildfire stories.

People are limited by the narrow, shallow labels that the wildfire casts upon them.

Transforming Justice

At the Peacefire, we find ways to break the power of the shallow labels and identities that flow from retributive justice.

Transforming Justice

At the Peacefire, we find ways to break free from the shallow labels and identities that flow from retributive justice.

At the Peacefire, we find a transforming justice that restores relationships through the love of Jesus Christ.

Lecture 4

A shallow wildfire story is a conflict story that labels an offender in a narrow and shallow manner.

The labels in a shallow wildfire story focus solely on the offensive or criminal aspects of the offender’s behavior.

The labels of a retributive justice system can become self-fulfilling prophecies that birth a cycle of criminal behavior when offenders accept the labels from the system/society.

Lecture 4

Retributive justice applies punishment and accountability for wrongdoing, but it fails to restore important relationships.

Retributive justice often prevents offenders from moving forward with their lives after paying their societal debt. 

When we respond to conflict wildfires by focusing on the wildfire and our desired outcome, we write shallow wildfire stories.

Lecture 4

At the Peacefire, we find a transforming justice that rejects labels and restores relationships through the love of Jesus Christ.