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  1. Effective and Humane Youth Policy Starts by Treating Youth with Respect

    approaches to conventional criminal justice in the U.S. and other countries, especially Great Britain and Western Europe, has demonstrated that restorative justice (a) reduces recidivism significantly and (b) promotes emotional relief (including relief...

  2. New Dutch law puts family power first

    home. As immigrants — the father from West Africa and living in the Netherlands illegally, the mother from another part of Europe — the family had few resources and little recourse. An Eigen Kracht coordinator from the Nigerian community met with the...

  3. Researcher and skilled practitioner joins IIRP faculty

    study of restorative justice implementation in Hungary. Since 2005, Borbála has been a consultant for the Council of Europe, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the National Crime Prevention Board and the Hungarian Ministry of Justice. She...

  4. Helping refugees and the communities they impact

    (4th from right) and others who met during the 19th IIRP World Conference to discuss ways to address the refugee crisis in Europe IIRP Europe representative Vidia Negrea, who lives in Hungary, is determined to address the refugee crisis facing her...

  5. Refugee camps ripe for restorative action

    circles are building relationships and mutual understanding at a refugee camp in Belgium. The camp, like many others across Europe, is crowded with asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. In this environment of tension, hope and...

  6. President's Blog: Globalism and community in the 21st century

    If you find these questions interesting, also check out the incredible speakers and topics at the upcoming 2017 IIRP Europe Conference, “Conflict in Europe: Meeting the Challenge.”

  7. A Romanian school holds circle to build bridges with Syrian refugees

    Image by Trocaire via Wikimedia CommonsAcross Europe, communities are struggling to deal with the consequences of Syrian immigrants arriving, settling and attempting to integrate into society. In the Romanian port town of Brăila, Vidia Negrea, IIRP...

  8. Award goes to innovative restorative justice work led by IIRP faculty

    The nonprofit organization, Foresee Research Group, received the 2018 European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) award for outstanding contributions Dr. Borbála Fellegi, Foresee Founder and Executive Director; Dr. Gábor Héra, Foresee sociologist...

  9. Family Group Conferencing as a First Choice: Empowerment Versus Intervention

    in the Netherlands, organizations that provide family group decision making (FGDM) and Real Justice conferencing throughout Europe, argues for widespread use of both conferencing models as a means to empower citizens and reinvigorate democracy. The...

  10. Against Penal Instrumentalism

    more punitive. If we look at incarceration, the number of prisoners per 100,000 people was 87 in 1997 and is now above the European average. If we look at the length of unconditional imprisonment, we get the following picture (in absolute numbers) if we...

  11. Family Group Conference Connections: Shared Problems and Joined Up Solutions

    to popular assumptions, family bonds remain strong, the report concluded. This is supported by earlier research of 13,000 Europeans of whom 96% placed ‘family’ at the top of their list of important aspects of life (Ruxten 1996). The current...

  12. Safety and Harmony: Stories from Finland’s Mediation Practices

    Works!, host Claire de Mezerville López welcomes Kethlin Lorincz and is joined by co-host Maia Chochua, vice chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ), to celebrate Restorative Justice Week. This episode is part of a special series,...

  13. Walking Through Tensions: Navigating Polarization with Dr. Borbala Fellegi

    explore the intricate dynamics of polarization in today’s world. With decades of experience in conflict resolution across Europe, Dr. Fellegi shares insights on the importance of acknowledging multiple narratives in a conflict and the critical role of...

  14. IIRP Featured News – September 2016

    that examine transformative learning experiences in a restorative practices-based graduate program at the IIRP. * IIRP Europe has been awarded the Restorative Justice Council (RJC) Training Provider Quality Mark (TPQM), verifying that all IIRP Europe...

  15. Nicola Preston, Ph.D.

    of Northampton in the U.K. Nicola has published numerous book chapters, articles and research reports in the U.K. and Europe and is on the editorial committee of the European Forum for Restorative Justice Newsletter. She has presented at many national...

  16. Reflections on "Dreaming of a New Reality": The IIRP's Third International Conference

    child protection agency. He has worked and trained in all the Scandinavian countries plus Belgium and Central and Eastern Europe — including Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia and Russia. Van Pagee works with two restorative models: the Real Justice...

  17. Restorative Justice Without Offender Participation: A Pilot Program for Victims

    justice throughout most of human history for perhaps all the world’s peoples” (Braithwaite, 2002). Restorative justice in Europe was largely abandoned at the time of the Norman Conquest (Van Ness, 1986). However, many indigenous cultures worldwide have...

  18. Restorative Practices with Sweden's Homeless: The Stockholm City Mission

    of the IIRP) in the United States. She attended the first Real Justice restorative practices facilitator training in Europe, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in February 2000. “When I came back from the training, I was so enthusiastic that Mija and Annelie...

  19. "A Survey of Assessment Research on Mediation and Restorative Justice" by Paul McCold: A Summary

    and Statistics Directorate, United Kingdom. This review provides an overview of restorative justice programs in 12 European jurisdictions: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,...

  20. The Sefton Centre for Restorative Practice: A Restorative Community in the Making

    on the northwest coast of England, Sefton is quite diverse, encompassing some of the most deprived communities in northern Europe, such as Bootle, as well as very affluent areas, such as Formby and Southport. Many of the restorative practices efforts...

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