6.6 Restorative Justice

The paradigm's complement: the harm-and-repair frame — the victim, the child and the community in structured dialogue (the victim-offender mediation, the family group conference, the circle); the outcomes (apology, restitution, service, the relationship's restoration); the juvenile fit (the adolescent's empathy-development — the accountability that the court's abstraction cannot teach); Nepal's faces: the court-annexed mediation practice's juvenile extension (the Mediation Act 2068's complement — Procedural Law-I, Semester 4), the kachahari-and-community traditions' revival potential (the badghar-and-mukhiya's justice — Nepali Legal System's informal world, applied with the child-rights safeguards), and the Kavre-and-pilot-era restorative experiments' lesson: the community's capacity must be built, not assumed.