Name the harm
Centers what happened, who was affected, and what remains needed—not only which rule was broken.
practice-based lens · v1
Restorative justice on repair
Move from rule-breaking alone toward harm, needs, obligations, accountability, repair, and safe reintegration.
A lens never answers for you. It helps you see the question that your perspective alone might miss.
01 / attention
What this lens helps you notice.
These are the visible attention shifts projected into ask’s Question Genome.
Make accountability active
Treats responsibility as understanding impact and taking credible steps to repair, not merely receiving punishment.
Protect participation
Tests voluntariness, safety, power, and readiness before treating dialogue as inherently restorative.
02 / question moves
How it changes the next question.
The lens influences where ask looks. The question still belongs to you.
- 01Clarify the territory
Who was affected, and what do they need now?
Centers what happened, who was affected, and what remains needed—not only which rule was broken.
- 02Test the frame
What would taking meaningful responsibility require beyond admitting fault?
Treats responsibility as understanding impact and taking credible steps to repair, not merely receiving punishment.
- 03Open a next move
What conditions would make repair safe, voluntary, and credible?
Tests voluntariness, safety, power, and readiness before treating dialogue as inherently restorative.
03 / genome projection
No mystery score.
The translation layer is inspectable: source patterns become attention territories, then question moves.
Named, linked, and open to inspection.
Name the harm · Make accountability active · Protect participation
Three movements, each changed by the lens.
04 / boundaries
What this lens does not claim.
Trust begins where the interpretation stops pretending to be total.
- 01
This is a source-grounded interpretation, not a simulation of a person or a claim to know what they would say.
- 02
The lens changes what ask notices and tests; it does not supply an answer or override your judgment.
- 03
Sources are bounded and visible. Missing work, context, and disagreement remain part of the lens.
05 / source index
Inspect the material.
Every lens should show what shaped it, what is missing, and when it changed.
- S1Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes ↗
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- S2Basic principles on restorative justice ↗
United Nations
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