Tracey King has been involved in helping the peace communities of Nicaragua to meet today's challenge of dealing with crime in villages and declining standards of living. The commissions were originially established by a small group of pastors in the late 1980s to help negotiate an end to the civil war. In the 1990s the peace commissions were successful in helping communities to reintegrate soldiers who had previously fought against each other. In the last year, Kin facilitated a workshop of restorative justice for about a third of the 100 peace commissioners still working in their communities. She says many of these commissioners already are using restorative justice— usually by having offenders make amends to the victim —without calling it by this name. (Peacebuilder 05)