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| Future EFRJ activities |
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22 May 2015, Warsaw (Poland)
SEMINAR ON MEDIATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
This seminar will follow the EFRJ Annual General Meeting 2015.
13-17 July 2015, Lisbon (Portugal)
SUMMER SCHOOL
Registration is still open for the Summer School on the victims' directive - challenges and opportunities for restorative justice.
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| Report on judicial training for RJ |
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The research report and manual of the EU funded project "Developing judicial training for restorative justice: Towards an European approach" are available online. Printed copies can be ordered at the EFRJ secretariat. Find here more information on the research project. |
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| Conference on victims of crime (Lisbon) |
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Also the EFRJ staff will attend the international conference “Victims of Crime in Europe: the future is now!” (Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 May 2015). The conference is organised by our colleagues from the Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV) and Victim Support Europe (VSE). See you all in Lisbon!
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| Theatre for healing and reconciliation (London) |
| On 7 May 2015, the founder and director of the Theatre of Witness, Teya Sepinuck, will present her personal experience of using personal and collective stories to encurage healing and peacebuilding for performers and audiences. The Theatre of Witness projects give voice to those whose stories haven’t been heard in society, such as prisoners and their families, survivors and perpetrators of abuse and violence, refugees, immigrants, elders, and those who have lived through war times. The evening with Teya Sepinuck will include film, readings and life stories. For info and registrations click here. |
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| NACRJ Conference 2015 (Florida) |
| More than 400 attendees already registered for the 5th national conference of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice "The Future of Restorative Community Justice: Building Sustainable Communities" (Ft. Lauderdale, 1-3 June, 2015). The programme of the conference includes several great keynote and plenary sessions. Attendees can choose among ten competing simultaneous sessions based on their interests. |
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| IIRP Europe Conference 2015 (Budapest) |
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Join IIRP Europe's conference "From Dream to Reality: Dawning of a New Social Science" in Budapest (Hungary) on 10-12 June 2015. This conference will bring together pioneers and practitioners who are advancing the field of restorative practices around the world. Speakers will share their experience in moving this new multidisciplinary social science beyond its origins in criminal justice to schools, workplaces and community settings. One of our partners in the project ALTERNATIVE, Dr. Borbála Fellegi, will present the results of the action research where restorative practices were used in Hungarian villages. Watch here a preview of Borbála's presentation.
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| The Community of Restorative Researchers |
| The Community of Restorative Researchers is an international, interdisciplinary and inter-profession research network. Even if you cannot attend the inaugural conference of the Community of Restorative Researchers (University of Leeds, UK, 7 July 2015), feel free to send the local organisers flyers, posters, articles, and other communication material to be distributed during the event. Write Ian Marder to know more about it! |
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| Mediation workshop (Italy) |
| A mediation workshop for practising mediators will take place in Tuscany (Italy) on 20 -27 June 2015. The workshop theme is “Shifting the Focus from Mediating the Problem to Mediating the Moment”. Click here to find the brochure, reviews of the previous workshops and the theoretical underpinnings. You can also read the latest article written by one of the workshop's organisers, Greg Rooney, on the illusion of mediators' neutrality. |
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Restorative Justice Symposium (Quebec)
| Find here the call for presenters for the 2015 National Restorative Justice Symposium which will be taking place in Quebec city (Canada) on 16-17 November during the International RJ Week 2015. As it does habitually every year, the theme for the symposium focuses on innovation in RJ. The specific theme for the NRJS 2015 is “Innovate, Strengthen, Sustain”. The deadline for the presentation proposals is 19 June. |
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| Report on Belgian RJ practices |
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Find here the 2014 annual report of Suggnomè, the Belgian Forum for Restorative Justice and Mediation. It contains useful information which could inspire countries with less developed RJ practices. The report is in Dutch, but you can definitely count on Google Translate or directly approach the Suggnomè team for more detailed information.
If you are also an organisational member of the EFRJ, feel free to share with us interesting reports that can be inspiring for others. The EFRJ is committed in sharing and promoting exchange across Europe and beyond! |
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| Report on global strategies to reduce violence |
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Among other strategies for preventing violence and reducing its impact by 50% in 30 years, this report from the University of Cambridge and the WHO calls for "disseminating, adapting and replicating best practices globally". It reflects on the benefits for individuals to participate in violence prevention programmes in schools, in families, in local communities and it calls for empowering people and transformative the current punitive ways to react to violence.
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| Article on RJ in homicide cases |
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Mark Austin Walters' recent article: " ‘I THOUGHT “HE’S A MONSTER”… [BUT] HE WAS JUST… NORMAL’ Examining the Therapeutic Benefits of Restorative Justice for Homicide" suggests that restorative dialogue may help family members of homicide to better understand the meaning of loss, most significantly by allowing participants to ask previously unanswered questions. Data include four interviews which took place six months after the restorative meeting with the stakeholders of the murder of a young gay man. The article argues that the state must do more to support family members of homicide victims by creating a ‘trauma-informed’ system of justice that operates in parallel to the conventional justice processes. |
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| Moment of inspiration |
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Can sports and music connect people in conflict and break the cycle of violence? In his talk, Tarek Alsalehexplains how he started to use capoeira to bring together thousands of vulnerable youngsters every year to dance and play in the Middle East. In capoeira there are no winners or losers: is it such a surprise that it may be used to encourage equality, tolerance and dignity in conflicting societies?
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