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National Conference 2022
A Transitional Model of Justice
Towards a Restorative and Transitional Justice model of engaging with victims and survivors in the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Our conference in 2025 aims to create a survivor centred framework of principles, practices and procedures that would effectively guide the support offered to survivors in an empowering way for each Individual and their families. We believe that a transitional justice approach would also support the Church community by providing a consistent and clear pathway to follow as a community together.
The NBSCCCI's aim through the conference is a collaborative and meaningful engagement with Victims and Survivors of Abuse, Church leaders, academic and professionals with legal, theological, psychological, and sociological expertise.
Through this section of the website we want to bring you articles and papers on restorative and transitional justice that display the successes and challenges of such a framework.
Articles and Papers on a Transitional Model of Justice
David Mark Smolin is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the Harwell G. Davis Chair in Constitutional Law, director for The Center for Children, Law, and Ethics, former director of the Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics, and faculty advisor for the Law, Science and Technology Society.
David has granted permission for NBSCCCI to share two papers he presented on to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
In David's own words to us when we began discussing transitional justice the first of his papers is more tentative in proposing Transitional Justice as a framework for supporting survivors of abuse within the Church, while the second is more extensive.
How and why The Church should adopt a Transitional Justice Framework to abuse in Catholic contexts
Articles and Papers on Restorative Justice.