Restorative Justice

UC San Diego's Restorative Justice Committee was originally formed in 2016 to study and evaluate restorative practices as a complement and alternative to the formal student conduct process. The committee continues to explore the use of restorative practices as a way to bring together a larger community that embodies our students, faculty and staff and campus partners.

Vision

The UC San Diego Restorative Justice Program aspires to cultivate and institutionalize Restorative Practice on campus, establish Restorative Justice as a core principle of campus culture, and transform our institution into the equitable and inclusive community we all deserve.

Mission

The UC San Diego Restorative Justice Program is dedicated to building community, addressing conflict, restoring individual, group and structural relationships, teaching Restorative Practice, and establishing a collective network of practitioners. Through these actions, we commit to address interpersonal and institutional inequities, including, but not limited to, anti-Blackness and White Supremacy Culture.

Values

In pursuit of our vision and mission, and consistent with UC San Diego’s Principles of Community, the UC San Diego Restorative Justice Program seeks to establish and nurture the following values:

Honoring - Acknowledge the ancestral land of the Kumeyaay on which we live, work, and learn, and resist the erasure of long-established Indigenous cultures that developed the practices we currently utilize.

Naming- Explicitly and publicly use language and analysis that frames issues for what they are (anti-Black, racist, unjust, etc.) to actively resist and confront the cultures, beliefs, power dynamics, and systems that perpetuate them.

Leveling - Give greater access and agency to all affected parties by centering shared decision making and deep listening, and maintaining processes that work with all parties rather than at them.

Inclusion - Utilize anti-racist and equity-minded frameworks to center marginalized voices, advance our individual agency to foster spaces of mattering, and address institutional deficits such as barriers to access.

Connectedness - Prevent, identify, and repair harms, with the intention of recognizing the dignity of all people and healing communities through education and accountability.

Education - Enhance individual and shared capacity to address conflict, build community, and dismantle racism and structural inequities through teaching of Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice.

Justice - Name, confront, and dismantle all forms of bias, including anti-Blackness, racism, violence, and systemic inequities.