What is the glue that holds all our individual and collective actions especially given the uncertainty of the next person's possible responses in the present context?
Perhaps we proceed on the basis of a social contract to which we believe that we and those with whom we interact are both parties.
Restorative practices restore and strengthen the "social contracts" that underpin our interactions.
Problems arise and harm is done when these social contracts are broken intentionally or inadvertently.
However most social contracts are unconscious - they are just assumed and "understood".
The long term power of restorative practices in general, and circles in particular, is that they can strengthen our social contracts by making them more explicit.
This can also make the wider implications of our actions much clearer before we make our next serious mistakes."
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