This will be the occasion to meet (most of) the authors as well as the members of the EFRJ Working Group on Environmental Restorative Justice who will provide a general introduction to the Practice Guide, explaining its purpose, the collaborative process behind it, and providing a chapter-by-chapter overview. Afterwards there will be time for a brief Q&A.
The presenting authors of the Practice Guide and members of the Working Group will be the following (please read the Practice Guide for more information on the authors):
Ivo Aertsen - Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven, Belgium
Mike Batley - Co-founder and director of the Restorative Justice Centre (RJC), a vibrant, multicultural civil society organisation
Miranda Forsyth - Professor of Restorative Justice at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Mark Hamilton - Senior Lecturer in Law and Criminology, Australian Catholic University
Lawrence Kershen – Mediator and restorative justice practitioner, with experience in a range of disputes including commercial, public sector and voluntary organisations; founding chair of the Restorative Justice Council in the United Kingdom
Nirson Neto - Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Chiara Perini - Full professor of criminal law at Insubria University, Italy, where she also teaches restorative justice and penal mediation
Felicity Tepper - Socio-ecological-legal researcher based at the School of Regulation and Governance (RegNet), at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
Gema Varona - Director of the Basque Institute of Criminology and President of the World Society of Victimology
Femke Wijdekop - Ecocide law expert based in the Netherlands, she is one of the co-authors of both the Dutch draft Ecocide Criminalization Act and the European Law Institute’s report on ecocide