Activities
Projects - COST A21
COST Action A21: Restorative Justice Developments in Europe - Members, meetings, workshops and conferences
Members
Currently the following 21 countries are represented in the Action: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzeland and the United Kingdom.
For each of the domains a Working Group has been established and a co-ordinator chosen. The participants in the Working Groups are researchers from the countries that have signed the Memorandum of Understanding of the Action. The Working Groups meet twice or three times a year in order to exchange and analyse the information collected, to discuss methodologies and to develop or set up further (theoretical) research. In-between the meetings, members undertake preparatory work.
The co-ordinators of the Working Groups are:
- Working Group 1 (Evaluative Research): Ida Hydle (ida.hydle@hia.no)
- Working Group 2 (Policy Oriented Research): Michael Kilchling (m.kilchling@mpicc.de)
- Working Group 3 (Theoretical Research): Rob Mackay (remackay@pkc.gov.uk)
- Working Group 4 (Restorative Justice, Violent State Conflicts and Mass Victimization): Jana Arsovska (jana_arsovska@hotmail.com)
People who are interested in the work of one of the Working Groups are invited to contact the respective Working Group co-ordinators.
For general information about the Action A21, please do not hesitate to contact the chair of the action: Ivo Aertsen (ivo.aertsen@law.kuleuven.ac.be).
The Management Committee, which is co-ordinating the Action, is composed of one or two people from the countries that have signed the Memorandum of Understanding of the Action. It usually meets the day after the meetings of the Working Groups and most Management Committee members are participating actively in one of the Working Groups.
The chair of the Management Committee is Ivo Aertsen (ivo.aertsen@law.kuleuven.ac.be). The vice-chair is Rob Mackay (remackay@pkc.gov.uk).
For a complete list of the members of the Management Committee, please click here.
The chair, vice-chair and co-ordinators of the Working Groups form the so-called Core Group.
Meetings
The reports of these meetings are accessible to COST members via the discussion forum of the website.Meetings of the Management Committee
- 29 November 2002, Brussels
- 5 December 2003, Freiburg
- 23 March 2004, Kristiansand
- 20 October 2004, Budapest
- 5 February 2005, Ljubljana
- 29 October 2005, Maastricht
- 3 March, Tel-Aviv
Meetings of the Core Group:
- 7-8 February 2003, Dublin
- 17 October 2004, Budapest
- 2 February 2005, Ljubljana
Meetings of Working Group 1 (Evaluative Research)
- 15-16 September 2003, Lisbon
- 6 December 2003, Freiburg
- 21-22 March 2004, Kristiansand
- 25 August 2004, Amsterdam
- 18-19 October 2004, Budapest
- 3-4 February 2005, Ljubljana
- 27-28 October 2005, Maastricht
- 1-2 March 2006, Tel Aviv
Meetings of Working Group 2 (Policy Oriented Research)
- 15-16 September 2003, Lisbon
- 4 December 2003, Freiburg
- 21-22 March 2004, Kristiansand
- 25 August 2004, Amsterdam
- 18-19 October 2004, Budapest
- 3-4 February 2005, Ljubljana
- 27-28 October 2005, Maastricht
- 1-2 March 2006, Tel Aviv
Meetings of Working Group 3 (Theoretical Research)
- 15-16 September 2003, Lisbon
- 4 December 2003, Freiburg
- 21-22 March 2004, Kristiansand
- 25 August 2004, Amsterdam
- 18-19 October 2004, Budapest
- 3-4 February 2005, Ljubljana
- 27-28 October 2005, Maastricht
- 1-2 March 2006, Tel Aviv
Meetings of Working Group 4 (Restorative justice, violent conflicts and mass victimisation)
- 27 October 2005, Maastricht
- 2-3 March 2006, Tel Aviv
Workshops and conferences
Following workshops and conferences were or are being organised in the framework of COST Action A21:
- 4-5 November 2004, Leuven (Belgium): The Institutionalisation of Restorative Justice in a Changing Society. Please click here to open the scientific report of this workshop.
- 26 October 2005, Maastricht (the Netherlands): Structuring the Landscape of Restorative Justice Theories. Please click here to open the scientific report of this workshop.
- 5 March 2006, Tel Aviv (Israel): Contact Hypothesis (Restorative justice and violent international conflicts).
- 22-24 November 2006, Final Conference in Warsaw (Poland): Restorative Justice Research in Europe: Outcomes and Challenges. For all information about this conference, please click here.