Open Forum

This post is a resource list for the AAM 2025 roundtable session, "Restorative Justice: Building Trust and Repairing Harms in Museums" (Wednesday, May 7, 2025 4-5PM, 402A&B).

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If you are interested in participating in future online/Zoom community building circles, please reply to this thread with your email or reach out directly to Kate Merrick at kate@exposeyourmuseum.com.

If you have additional resources to share or questions to ask, please post below. 

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Books:

The Little Book of Restorative Justice  
The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
Until We Reckon

Articles and Documents:

Pranis' Essential Elements of a Circle
Community Building Circles (2019)
Integrating Indigenous Peacemaking in the Academy (2020)
Transforming Restorative Justice (2021)
What Is Healing Justice? (2022)

Museums and Restorative Justice:

Center for Restorative History (at the Smithsonian's National Museum for American History)
Restore KC (at the Museum of Kansas City)

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Kate Merrick (they/she)
ExposeYourMuseum
kate@exposeyourmuseum.com
www.exposeyourmuseum.com
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