Kay Pranis has worked in the field of restorative justice for almost two decades. She was the restorative justice planner for the Minnesota Department of Corrections for nine years. Pranis calls the spread of restorative justice a “quiet revolution.”

Stephanie Hixon is executive director of the JustPeace Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation, a United Methodist center for conflict resolution. Established in 2000, JustPeace trains people in conflict transformation and restorative justice.

Elaine Enns has been a trainer and consultant on restorative justice for almost two decades. She is part of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries in Oak View, Calif.

Ron Claassen is director of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University and a Mennonite minister. In 2002, he spoke at the first restorative justice conference held in Israel.

Gordon Bazemore teaches criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University. He has published extensively, and his research includes evaluating restorative justice programs at state and federal levels. He leads the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project, a federally funded juvenile justice program.

A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

An May 31, 2013, opinion piece published in the New York Times that asks if force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike constitutes torture. The question came about after detainees in the U.S.’s Guantánamo Bay prison facility in Cuba refused to be fed in protest of new rules.

The European Forum for Restorative Justice aims to help establish and develop victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices throughout Europe.

Heather Strang is director of the Centre for Restorative Justice at Australian National University. She has done research in Australia and Great Britain on the effectiveness of restorative justice.