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| Reports on Belfast conference |
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The EFRJ has tried to report on its 8th International Conference for those of you that were not able to come to Belfast betwen 11-14 June 2014. Many news, pictures, comments have already been posted during the conference and much more will come in the near future! Check the EFRJ website and follow us on social media!
Additionally, the next EFRJ Newsletter will be dedicated to the Belfast Conference. If you want to receive the EFRJ Newsletters (and take advantage of other benefits reserved to the EFRJ members), renew your membeship or become a new member of the EFRJ now!
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| Pictures and video from Belfast |
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Before leaving Belfast, we left a sign of the EFRJ presence in the city! If you are visiting Belfast again, search for the mural with the EFRJ logo and send us your picture with it!
More pictures about the conference in Belfast can be found on our Facebook page. Feel free to share yourstoo!
The VIDEO on the Belfast conference made by our Hungarian friends at Foresee is also now available online!
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| Delegates in Belfast, please send us your feedback! |
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Dear delegates,
in order to write a final report on the conference, we need your help! If you did not do so yet, please send us your CONFERENCE EVALUATION FORM. If you moderated or took minutes during any of the workshops, please send us the related forms too. Everything is now downloadable from here. Also make sure you provide us with your POWERPOINT PRESENTATION for our internal database. And, even if you did not attend the conference, feel free to fill in the EFRJ Survey. Thanks!
This information was already sent to all delegates this week: we are aware of the unreadable format of the e-mail. Our apologises for the inconvenience!
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| European Restorative Justice Award 2014 |
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After Ivo Aertsen (2010) and Martin Wright (2012), the EFRJ is pleased to announce the winner of the RJ Award 2014: Christa Pelikan from Austria. The ceremony took place in Belfast on Friday 13 June before the conference dinner. It may not be sufficient to say that Christa "was – and still is – extremely influential in the development of a European Restorative Justice": read here the speech given by the current chair of the EFRJ Board, Dr. Michael Kilchling.
You can find here more info on the previous RJ Awards.
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| Welcome to our three new Board members |
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During the last Annual General Meeting of the EFRJ (Belfast, 11 June 2014), three new board members have been elected. The EFRJ is happy to welcome:
- Aarne Kinnunen (Finland)
- Karolien Marien (Belgium)
- Roberto Moreno (Spain)
If you want to know more about the EFRJ Board members and the staff based in Leuven please click here.
The EFRJ is grateful for the three other candidates that came forward in the elections: Justad Lars Otto (Norway), Preston Nicola (UK) and Ziedina Diana (Latvia). The EFRJ is confident that it will find ways to collaborate with each of you in the near future.
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| Thanks to our "old" Board members and EO |
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While new Board members have been elected, three others have been thanked for their commitment to the EFRJ during the conference in Belfast:
- Aarne Kinnunen (Finland): Aarne was also one of the six candidates and he has been re-elected to stay on Board.
- Katrien Lauwaert (Belgium): officially, Katrien left the Board last year, when she was selected to be the coordinator of the EFRJ project "Desistance and RJ".
- Eleonore Lind (Sweden): Eleonore promised to continue to share her experience in training and mediation with the EFRJ team (i.e. the EFRJ project "Accessibility and Initiation of RJ").
Another loud THANK YOU goes to our previous Executive Officer, Monique Anderson (UK), who will soon start her PhD at the Leuven Institute for Criminology (Faculty of Law, KULeuven). Monique promised to keep an eye on the EFRJ whenever this will be needed.
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| Conference on creative responses to conflict (Maynooth) |
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4-7th September 2014: The Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, is organising an International Conference on "Creative Responses to Conflict through Mediation and Restorative Practices". Registrations are open. Early Bird Registration (€ 200) available until today 30th June! Please send your paper/workshop by 5th July. Here you find the full programme of the conference. For further information, please contact Patty Abozaglo.
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| Training on the EU Victims´ Directive (London) |
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| Conference on victims´ protection (Belgrade) |
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The Victimology Society of Serbia is pleased to announce its fifth Annual Conference "Victims’ protection: international law, national legislation and practice", which will be held on 27-28 November 2014 in the hotel “Park” in Belgrade (Serbia). All information about the conference will be also available here.
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| Interactive documentary on RJ |
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INSIDE THE DISTANCE
WE ARE ALL VICTIMS | WE ARE ALL OFFENDERS
This is the online project of Sharon Daniel, who was also presenting part of her interactive video exhibition in Belfast during the 8th International Conference of the EFRJ.
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| Project awarded for implementing more RJ and decision-making processes in Austria |
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The project "Sozialnetz-Konferenz (SoNeKo)" has been awarded for implementing Social-Net-Conferencing to avoide pre-trial custody for juvenile offenders in the Austrian Probation Service. On May 1st, 2014, SoNeKo received the first prize (out of other 261 international projects) of the "SOZIALMARIE-Award", a prize given by an international jury for outstanding social innovation´s projects. The project has been presented during the 8th international conference of the EFRJ in Belfast. SoNeKo received also the attention of several Austrian media (in German): Kurier0205, Kurier0305, Orf0205, Ots0205,WienOrf0205.
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| International RJ Week 2014 and RJ symposium (Banff) |
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This year, the international RJ Week will take place during November 16-23, 2014. The theme has not been made public yet, but it will be soon available on this link of the Correctional Service Canada. The EFRJ is planning to organise and support a series of coordinated events and joint communications in the different EU countries reflecting on the specific theme of 2014.
During the same week, November 16-18th, 2014, the 2014 National Restorative Justice Symposium (NRJS) will be hosted by the Alberta Restorative Justice Association (ARJA) in Banff. Dr. Howard Zehr wil be this year's keynote speaker! To be notified of the latest updates on the 2014 National Restorative Justice Symposium, please sign up here. The deadline for submitting workshop proposals is Juy 25, 2014. More information will be soon available on the website of the Correctional Service Canada.
For now, just save the dates your agenda!
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| A moment of inspiration |
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Daniel Reisel: The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice
TED Talk - While researching the roots of human morality, Daniel Reisel focuses his interest on the brains of criminal psychopaths and he wonders: "If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury … could we help the brain re-grow morality?" Reisel suggests RJ as a way to help offenders to rehabilitate.
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