Activities

Seminars - Lisabon

Note: Not all presentations and reports are available yet. They will be put on the website as they come in.

Welcoming and introduction:

Michael Kilchling, Secretary of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, Germany
João Tiago Silveira, State Secretary of Justice, Portugal
João Lazaro, Executive director of APAV, Portugal

Introduction to restorative justice - Carmela Cavallo, Head of the Juvenile Justice Department and Juvenile Judge, Italy
Glossary: words of mediation - Juvenile Justice Department, Italy

Introduction to the AGIS project "Restorative justice: An agenda for Europe" - Ivo Aertsen, Professor at the K.U.Leuven and project supervisor, Belgium

Workshop session 1: Restorative justice and the law

Restorative justice: A right or a favour? - Presentation by Leo Van Garsse (Belgium)
Which type of legal instruments? - Presentation by David Miers (UK)
Concerns of legal practitioners - Presentation by Kurt Creyf (Begium)

Workshop session 2: Organising restorative justice practice

Creating “common ground” between restorative justice services at a national level - Presentation by Elisabetta Ciuffo and Isabella Mastropasqua (Italy)
Communication with related agencies - Presentation by Mark Montebello (Malta)
The needs of the European restorative justice scene - Presentation by Jolien Willemsens (Belgium)

Workshop session 3: Training and raising awareness

How to ensure the quality of the practice? - Presentation by Belinda Hopkins (UK)
Developing training for legal practitioners - Presentation by Frauke Petzold (Germany)
Communication with the public - Presentation by Montserrat Martínez and Albert Rodríguez (Spain)

Workshop session 4: Implementing restorative justice

Implementing a restorative policy - Presentation by Aarne Kinunnen (Finland)
Restorative justice as a political priority - Presentation by Pompeu Casanovas and Jaume Martin (Spain)
The specificity of EU regulation - Presentation by Frank Verbruggen (Belgium)