RAN study visit on RJ

Our Board member Katerina Soulou (Greece) is representing the EFRJ during the study visit on RJ organised by the RAN- Radicalisation Awareness Network (Zagreb, 12-13 September).

Objectives of the study visit on restorative justice include:

• Capturing insights and recommendations on if and how restorative justice can be used in exit programs in different affected Member States.
• Learning from the way Croatia implemented restorative justice especially in the context of its history of violence and a possible transition of restorative justice in other fields of law/prosecution.

Katerina will present on RJ Europe, focusing on the concrete RJ experience in cases of political violence with particular examples from Italy and the Basque county and the methods and challenges faced during implementation.

This study visit will feed into the RAN EXIT and RAN RVT meeting, organised with the EFRJ (Dublin, 3-4 December 2019), in which participants will learn what elements (insights, methodological approaches and tools) of restorative justice can be implemented in exit work and will be provided with guidelines (including the methodological approach) enabling to put this in place for victims and offenders.