Since 2012, I have been writing an annual commentary for "Restorative Justice Week", originally introduced in 1996 by the Correctional Service Canada. Therein, I would often criticise what the international restorative justice movement did (or didn't do) during the year. This year, as I was trying to find some new "words of wisdom", the Paris atrocities took place changing everything that I was planning to say. I deleted my draft and asked myself, and through this newsletter,