Although taken from the perspective of a community organization, I - TopicsExpress

Although taken from the perspective of a community organization, I found that accountability is one of the most difficult things post removal from a violent situation. This was a great list that can be translated to the personal self. Difficulties that have risen from past attempts to do community accountability work include: 1. Refusal by the perpetrator to acknowledge that their behavior was problematic, harmful, unjust, or violent. 2. Delegitimizing, silencing, blaming, isolating, retaliating, attacking, marginalizing, or refusing to believe survivors and/or witnesses. 3. Manipulation of the process by the perpetrator to stack the process in favor of themselves, remove people who support or are sympathetic to the survivor from the process, use the process itself to continue violence, use the process to maintain or assert power over others, claim victimhood in order to further marginalize/harm the survivor, or to demand forgiveness/restoration of their reputation without actual accountability or change. 4. Perpetrators often avoid responsibility by moving to another scene or location, often this means that they will continue to harm new people who are unaware of their past. 5. The people close to a perpetrator may attack or seek retaliation against the survivor and/or those involved in the community accountability process as well as those simply supporting or maintaining connection to the survivor. 6. Perpetrators often will use threats of lawsuits, police, and using the power of the police state / judicial system against the survivor and their communities of support. 7. Situations may also arise when two or more people have been mutually violent/abusive/unjust to one another and it is difficult to divide the situation into clear survivor/perpetrator roles or to establish how things started or who in fact holds more power in the situation. We acknowledge that this is a very hard process that is difficult for all involved. However, it is work that needs to be done within ourselves and within our community. This outline is our first attempt to identify our community’s need for restorative justice in our interpersonal relationships. It is a work in progress that we hope will initiate dialogue with other circles and individuals who wish to speak and work on this matter. It is also a call out to these circles to connect, heal, and break silences. *Inspired by various organizations and documents including “The Revolution Starts at Home” by INCITE, QUARREL, Oakland Sister Circle.

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