ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses why vengeance is never enough. By focusing attention on vengeance against enemies, a novice administration diverted attention from our national state of unpreparedness, inattention to foreign affairs, and the resulting failure to foresee and forestall the September 11th attacks. The chapter represents September 11 as the first time the possibility arose for establishing restorative justice on a global scale. It focuses on in particular on the Anglican Church of Canada and the pivotal nature of shame in ongoing conflicts. The following case study explores in more detail the nature of such collective shame in relation to retributive justice on the one hand, and restorative justice on the other. It involves a history of sex crimes in which both church and state were complicit, and it raises all the issues of restorative justice that concern the people here. And here the chapter refers not simply to the shame of the victim, but also to the shame of the perpetrator.
