A Vision of Justice That Heals Rather than Punishes - Lessons from the Mr Enoch Burke Case

Описание: Justice That Heals: Trauma-Informed Arbitration and a Different Path Forward

This video looks at the same dispute through a different lens — not enforcement or punishment, but trauma-informed justice.

It asks a fundamental question:

When a conflict ends in coercion and imprisonment, did justice actually heal anyone — or did it deepen the harm?

Using the Burke case as a case study, the video explains:

how adversarial systems can escalate rather than resolve conflict

why punishment and humiliation often entrench defiance

how moral injury and perceived injustice intensify disputes involving belief, conscience, and authority

The video introduces trauma-informed arbitration — a structured, binding, and independent process designed to resolve high-conflict institutional disputes before they reach crisis point.

It explains how this approach:

prioritises safety, dignity, and proportionality

allows safeguarding obligations and conscience-based beliefs to be examined without caricature

reduces escalation by addressing trauma and moral injury

enables outcomes courts cannot design, such as conditional return, redeployment, or dignified exit

The video also explains why Ireland currently lacks this option in school disputes:

no mandatory early mediation

no trauma-informed proportionality review

no requirement to attempt arbitration before escalation

courts used as both first and last resort

Grounded in a philosophy of justice that heals rather than divides or punishes, this video argues that accountability and standards need not be abandoned — but they can be enforced without destroying people or institutions.

This is a call for reform, prevention, and a justice system capable not only of enforcement, but of resolution.

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