Activities
Conferences - Budapest
Restorative Justice in Europe: Where are we heading? Budapest (Hungary), 14-16 October 2004
Plenary sessions
1. Maria Herczog, Hungary: Restorative justice in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparisons, achievements and challenges (abstract)
2. Gerd Delattre, Germany: Dialogue with the public - a neglected element of restorative justice?
3. Sturla Falck, Norway: Restorative justice - a giant leap or just another tool for the criminal justice system?
Workshop 1: Volunteers as a form of community participation
1. Betty Robinson, UK: Volunteering for my community
2. Karen Paus, Norway: Volunteer or professional mediators
Workshop 2: Restorative justice in schools
1. Anja Semper and Bernd-Uwe Gutling, Germany: Mediation in schools "MeinS" (abstract)
2. Livia Hadhazi, Hungary: Application of the conflict management technique "Face to face" in the Zöld Kakas Liceum Secondary School
Workshop 3: Conferencing models
1. Rick Sarre, Australia: An adult RJ pilot project in South Australia
2. Rob van Pagee, Netherlands: Conferencing is empowering citizens and should be in the mainstream
3. Monika Platek, Poland: RJ conferences in Poland - the rise of the new legal practice
Workshop 4 - part 1: Introducing restorative justice in Central and Eastern Europe (AGIS seminar)
1. Zuzana Slezakova, Czech Republic: Introduction of the AGIS project and first results (abstract)
2. Sorin Hanganu (Moldova): Ideologies in sentencing in Central and Eastern European countries
Workshop 4 - part 2: Introducing restorative justice in Central and Eastern Europe (AGIS seminar)
1. Rustem Maksudov, Russia, and Eamonn Keenan, UK: Achievements, issues and problems of introducing RJ into Russia
2. Rasim Gjoka, Albania: Challenges and perspectives of mediation and RJ in Albania
3. Radek Gjados and Marek Tkac, Czech Republic: Czech justice and restorative practice
Workshop 4 - part 3: Introducing restorative justice in Central and Eastern Europe (AGIS seminar)
1. Stefania Kregel, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Introducing restorative justice for juveniles in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a pilot project on the implementation of alternative measures and mediation
2. Roman Koval, Ukraine: RJ implementation in Ukraine
3. Doina Balahur, Romania: Romanian juvenile justice system towards its way to restorative practices
Workshop 5: RJ and the training of mediators and facilitator
1. Niall Kearney, UK: Introduction to and first results of the AGIS project on the training of mediators and facilitators (abstract)
2. Ben Lyon, UK: Training and accreditation; approaches to the development of best practice and regulation of practice (abstract)
Workshop 6: RJ and legal practitioners
1. Gordon Petterson, Norway: How to enable prosecutors and judges to make use of RJ practice in their work. The results of the AGIS project on the training of legal practitioners in RJ
2. Elzbieta Czwartosz, Poland: Awareness of RJ among lawyers in Poland (abstract)
3. Simona Ghetti and Anna Mestitz, Italy: What do Italian judges and prosecutors think about victim-offender mediation?
Workshop 7: COST Action A21: Theoretical developments
1. Rob Mackay and Martin Wright, UK; John Blad and Bas van Stokkom, Netherlands; Christa Pelikan, Austria: Making sense of RJ - Messages from the COST Action Working Group on RJ theory
2. John Blad, Netherlands: COST Action A21: The scope of RJ
3. Rob Mackay, UK: COST Action A21: RJ theories (work in progress)
4. Christa Pelikan, Austria: COST Action A21: Theoretical developments
Workshop 8: Applying RJ in intercultural settings
1. Mary Jo McAllister: Youth RJ in Northern Ireland - across all our communities and cultures (abstract)
2. Uri Yanay, Israel: Restoring justice. Could it work in the Middle East? (abstract)
Workshop 9: RJ, the police and punishment
1. Hendrik Kaptein, Netherlands: RJ as punitive public law (abstract)
2. Margaret Martin, USA: Policing and RJ: Where are we headed?
Workshop 10: The victim's position in the context of RJ
1. Niall Kearney, UK: Issues of affecting victims of severe violence in the context of RJ in Scotland
2. Antony Pemberton, Netherlands: Abolitionist tendencies and victims' needs in RJ (abstract)
3. Ilona Gorgenyi, Hungary: The victim's position in relation to RJ in Hungary
Workshop 11: RJ in prisons
1. Hilde Guffens, Belgium: RJ in prison in Belgium: Where we started and where we are heading (abstract)
2. Marian Liebmann and Lindy Wootton, UK: Restorative justice in Bristol prison
3. Antonio Buonatesta, Belgium: Victim-offender mediation in a penitentiary context. Outcome of an experiment carried out in several Belgian prisons
Workshop 12: RJ, young persistent offenders and children as victims of crime
1. Jasna Hrncic, Zivica Pavlovic and Slobodan Milosavljevic, Serbia and Montenegro: Mediation in conflicts at the juvenile correctional institution in Krusevac
2. Billy Nicol, UK: Children (both as victims and offenders) in RJ
3. Videa Negrea, Hungary: Transforming labels: New practices to reintegrate troubled teens
Workshop 13: Particular approaches in RJ practice
1. Ilaria de Vanna, Italy: Mediterranean mediation (abstract)
2. Beni R. Jakob, Israel: Breaking the chains of cross- and transgenerational crime
Workshop 14: Developing RJ policies
1. Liz Nelson, UK: The development of a strategic approach to restorative justice - the issues for Government
2. Paul McCold, USA: Dangers and opportunities of setting standards for RJ practices
Workshop 15: Implementing local RJ programmes
1. Keith Hastie, UK: Establishing and sustaining a RJ programme
2. Frederik Bullens, Belgium: Selecting cases for mediation (abstract)
Workshop 16: RJ policy development and legislation
1. Brian Williams, UK: Recent UK legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or co-option?
2. Leo Van Garsse, Belgium: Legislation on mediation: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
Workshop 17: Applying RJ in cases of domestic and sexual violence
1. Bernd Glaeser, Austria: Victim-offender mediation in cases of domestic violence
2. Karin Sten Madsen and Hanne Andersson, Denmark: The challenge of mediating rape
3. Aune Flinck and Juhani Iivari, Finland: Domestic violence in mediation: Realistic evaluation of a research and development project (Finnish evaluation of social services)
Workshop 18: Research on RJ in Europe
1. Anna Mestitz, Italy: VOM with youth offenders in Europe - A Grotius project
2. Ivo Aertsen, Belgium: COST Action A21: General presentation
3. Dobrinka Chankova, Bulgaria: COST Action A21: Policy oriented research
Workshop 19: Furthering RJ practices
1. Hans Boserup, Denmark: Advanced techniques and dilemmas in mediation
2. Ted Wachtel, USA: From RJ to restorative practices. Expanding the paradigm
Some pictures of the conference