Biographies Restorative Justice Values & Standards Committee

Claudia Christen-Schneider is a criminologist and a restorative justice practitioner. As founder and current president of the Swiss RJ Forum, she is actively involved in promoting, developing and implementing restorative justice in Switzerland. She has led several pilot projects in Swiss prisons and facilitates direct offender-victim dialogues. She is the author of the book "Trauma-Informed Restorative Dialogues - The Power of Community" that examines the intersection of restorative justice and trauma-informed practice, and the role of community in such processes. Claudia is part of the research group at the University of Portsmouth and is a member of the advisory board of Nomos Publishing's new publication series on issues of resocialisation, victim protection and restorative justice (Seehaus plus). She is a guest lecturer at the Swiss Competence Centre for Correctional Services and is involved in designing and delivering training on restorative justice.

Rocío Nicolás López is a social educator and holds a master’s degree in advanced studies in Social Education from the Complutense University of Madrid, another in gender-based violence from IFS-La Salle. And another in conflict management and restorative practices from UDIMA. She is a facilitator of restorative processes with victims and offenders in penitentiary centers, as well as in the AMEE association, where she also coordinates the area of social research in restorative justice. She works as a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University, where she completed her doctoral thesis. She holds a PhD from the complutense University of Madrid, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the socio-educational possibilities of restorative justice in the penitentiary environment.) 

Karin Sten Madsen has a background in social work and psychotherapy before becoming a victim-offender facilitator in 2000, she holds a Master Degree in Restorative Justice from the University of Hull. She introduced restorative justice at the Centre for Victims of Sexual Assault in Copenhagen in 2002 and has since been engaged in various projects on developing and appropriating restorative practice for victims of sexual violence and historic sexual abuse.
Karin has presented her work at various international conferences and been part of the EU Commission "Daphne" project on restorative justice and sexual violence, and the EU Commission project on restorative justice in cases of domestic violence. In connection with the Daphne project, she co-authored: Doing restorative justice in cases of sexual violence. A Practical Guide. She has been the co-editor of a Danish anthology on sexual violence and restorative approaches in a therapeutic setting and published: tidenefter.nu – a website with narratives about the aftermath of crime (in Danish).
Karin is a member of the EFRJ working group on restorative justice and gender-based violence and is currently involved in a Danish research project seeking funding to implement restorative dialogues (with unrelated participants) in Denmark.

Noémie Micoulet holds a professional Master in Criminology and Victims' Rights, a certificate in Criminal Sciences and a University Diploma in Criminology from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. She also spent a year as an exchange student at the University of Montreal's School of Criminology. As coordinator of the Service Régional de Justice Restaurative (SRJR) -Ile de France, a department of the Association de Politique Criminelle Appliquée et de Réinsertion Sociale (APCARS) in Paris, Noémie Micoulet was involved in setting up and running the Service Régional de Justice Restaurative and in a number of restorative justice awareness-raising initiatives.
She joined the EFJR team in 2015, as a facilitator of meetings between Convicted Offenders and Victims (RCV) and Restorative Mediation (MR), and as a restorative justice trainer. She has accompanied numerous restorative justice programmes. In October 2018, she became the coordinator of the first EFJR branch, the South-East branch.
Since 2024, she has been in charge of the EFJR's branches.

Arti Mohan is a lawyer and restorative justice practitioner working at the intersection of justice and healing. Previously, she worked directly with survivors in the legal system, representing child survivors in court and co-designing one of India’s first restorative healing spaces for children. She has trained governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, including judges, lawyers, and civil society actors, in restorative justice, child-rights and trauma-informed approaches.
She has been a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice’s Values and Standards Committee since 2019 and is also on its Working Group on Restorative Justice and Gender-Based Harm. Arti is the India Chapter Lead for Survivors for Justice Reform, contributing to efforts that centre survivor voices in justice transformation.
Arti’s research includes serving as Lead Editor for Restorative Justice Around the Globe and authoring a forthcoming chapter mapping restorative justice in India for the International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice. She teaches restorative justice in law schools in India and the U.S. and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Rachel Quine, Restorative Practitioner and Founder of Understanding People (UP) project, United Kingdom.
Rachel Quine trained as a restorative justice Facilitator in 2006 and spent a decade facilitating restorative processes within the youth justice system, becoming an accredited practitioner in the UK in 2012. Since 2014 Rachel has provided restorative practice training and support to communities, professionals and organisations and set up the Conflict Clinic, a project where young people can access specialist restorative facilitation support in their schools. She completed a MSc in RP from Ulster University in 2018 and designed a restorative justice Level 5 course accredited by a London University and the UK Restorative Justice Council, giving her in-depth knowledge of the RP National Occupational Standards of practice. Rachel provides supervision to new and experienced facilitators and in 2022 she founded Understanding People (UP) project – a collective of experienced   facilitators committed to addressing social inequalities and harm through radically respectful restorative practice. She has been a member of the Values and Standards Committee since 2022.