%0 Journal Article
%T M ori Customary Law: A Relational Approach to Justice
%A Stephanie Vieille
%J International Indigenous Policy Journal
%D 2012
%I University of Western Ontario
%X This research paper examines the philosophy of justice embodied in tikanga M ori, the M ori traditional mechanism and approach to doing justice. Based on several months of fieldwork in New Zealand, this study contends that the M ori approach to justice adopts a holistic and relational lens, which requires that justice be seen in the context of relationships and crimes dealt with in terms of the relationships they have affected. As a result, justice must be carried out within the community and the process owned by community members. Further discussion draws attention to the response of M ori communities to the New Zealand government¡¯s attempt to accommodate their traditions and warns against the global tendency to render traditional Indigenous approaches to justice ahistorical through their representation as restorative justice mechanisms.
%K Indigenous knowledge
%K M ori
%K restorative justice
%K relationships
%U http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=iipj