UNIQUIE INDENTIFICATION NUMER: RJC21221122

Over the past two years we have all experienced unprecedented challenges, but we have also witnessed many examples of communities coming together to provide support, heal and rebuild. Despite this, we are still living in troubled times. We are increasingly seeing cases of interpersonal violence within our communities and find ourselves in times where war, conflict and organised violence are becoming more commonplace. Class, gender, generational, religious, race, political and social polarisation continue to leave our communities divided and disconnected and the notion of a ‘just society’ all the more out of reach.

This is why, during this year’s conference we want to explore the potential for restorative justice and practices as an approach to building resilience within our communities. Thus, the theme of the 4th annual RJC conference is ‘Living in Troubled Times - Restorative approaches to building resilience’ 

This year, our conference sessions will focus on one of four areas:

1. Restorative responses to interpersonal violence
2. Restorative responses to war, organised violence and societal conflict
3. Building community resilience in troubled times
4. Restorative practice and social justice

We are particularly interested to explore how restorative approaches are being used in cases of interpersonal violence. Whether this be violence against women, hate crime specifically racialised, homophobic, transgender and xenophobic incidents, and the rise in knife crime. We ask: how can restorative practice be visualised and developed in cases of interpersonal violence?

War, conflict and premeditated acts of violence continue to dominate our news. Whether this be the uncertainty of the war in the Ukraine, the reports of war crimes inflicted on Ukrainian communities, the threat, and actual acts of violence instigated by organised gangs, the exploitation of young people through county lines crimes, acts of terrorism both home and abroad and societal conflict between communities across the United Kingdom. We ask, how are/can we respond restoratively to war, conflict and acts of violence?

We ask how can we create restorative communities? How do our institutions, including our secure estate, schools, social care providers, health services and religious communities become restorative spaces? How does a community become a space for developing strong and effective restorative relationships?

Finally, in a world where class, gender, generational, religious, race, political and social polarisation continue to leave communities divided and disconnected we want to understand how we can align restorative practice within the social justice movement. We ask, how can restorative practices contribute to developing a just society?

We will soon be announcing our list of confirmed keynote speakers who are sure to stimulate debate and discussion in our effort to provide insight into how we might bridge the divides and strengthen communities.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Elliot Colburn, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom

• Fighting Crime; Proactive Policing.
• Supporting Victims; Safer Communities.
• Driving Change; Prevent Offending.

Emily is committed to being a visible and proactive PCC, who is dedicated to connecting with local people and using resources effectively and responsibly.

 

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Debbie Watters, Founder member and Co-Director of Northern Ireland Alternatives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debbie has been to the forefront of the development of restorative justice in Northern Ireland including the introduction of restorative justice in arenas other than justice such as schools; churches, welfare, care and youth sectors. She also has a wide range of international experience in South America, South Africa, Israel/Palestine and the USA where she currently advise at Boston University on issues related to policing, conflict resolution, restorative and criminal justice. She developed a training programme and trained every probation officer in Northern Ireland in restorative justice.

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Professor Kieran McEvoy, Queens University Belfast

Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He has conducted research in over a dozen conflicted or transitional countries on topics including politically motivated prisoners, ex-combatants, victims, amnesties, truth recovery, human rights, restorative justice and the role of lawyers in conflict transition. He has authored or co-authored four books, co-edited eight books and written over sixty journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy – the most prestigious indicators of peer recognition in British and Irish academia. He is a long-standing peace and human rights activist and was involved in direct dialogue with the Republican Movement in Northern Ireland in the 1990s which led to the creation of Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI), originally as an alternative to IRA  punishment violence but now working in partnership with the PSNI and other statutory criminal justice agencies. He remains a CRJI board member.

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Dr Jamie Bennett, Chief Strategy Officer, Youth Justice Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Jamie Bennett is Chief Strategy Officer in Youth Justice Board. The Youth Justice Board has oversight of the youth justice system in England and Wales. In this role he oversees the research, data, stakeholder engagement and strategic development. Prior to taking up this role, he worked in prisons for 25 years including governing four prisons. He is also a Research Associate at University of Oxford and has published seven books on criminal justice issues.

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Dr Katherine Doolin, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Katherine Doolin is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand (https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-doolin/), having previously worked in the law faculties at the University of Birmingham and University of Kent in the UK. She researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice, with particular expertise on restorative justice, prisons and youth justice. Her current research focuses on prison violence and on the use of restorative justice post-sentence, including in prisons. Dr Doolin has been a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Criminology at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has extensive experience of carrying out evaluations of restorative justice schemes for adult and youth offenders. Since completing a doctorate at the University of Kent on restorative youth conferencing, Dr Doolin has published widely on restorative justice and presented on her research at over 30 international conferences and seminars.

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Heather Skelton, Head of Restorative Resolutions, NHS -  East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust

Heather is an experienced restorative justice practitioner, trainer and assessor. Over the last 20 years, she has developed restorative systems and processes for schools and family services throughout Kent. She has delivered training to the Children’s workforce nationally and practiced within the criminal justice sector, education and social care. Heather has recently moved into healthcare, working for the NHS, helping to embed a Restorative Just and Learning culture into human resources systems, specifically focusing on staff conflict and grievance.

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CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

Under Threat 

Sinead Murphy, Community Restorative Justice Northern Ireland 

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Evidencing Success and Successful Evidence in Restorative Work

Ben Fisk, University of Gloucestershire

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Delivering restorative practice training in a restorative way to support culture chance in schools 

Inger Brit Lowater, Gloucestershire County Council

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Reflections on the dynamics of transferring restorative knowledge

Dr Ana Oprea, De Montfort University

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Restorative Cities: International Travel Guide

Dr Marian Liebmann and Cristina Vasilescu, Resolve West / Associazone Comunita il Ganniano

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Together for Justice - Connecting Beyond the Labels

Lucy Pearson, Abigail Addai and Hajar Beshira,  RJ Working CIC

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An investigation into police compliance in respect of restorative justice rights within the Victim's Code (2021) at one police force in the North-East

Dr Nikki D'Souze and Dr Donna Marie Brown - Northumbria University / Durham University

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Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives

Jamie Buchan, Edinburgh Napier University

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Harmed and harmer: how to incorporate trauma-informed and restorative practices when working with young people affected by crime and conflict

Leah Robinson, Why me?

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Restorative justice and the secure estate - finding restorative spaces within prisons

Dr Katherine Doolin, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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An Economic Evaluation of Restorative Justice post-sentence in England and Wales

Frank Grimsey Jones, Why me?

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CONFIRMED WORKSHOPS

The Loving Wolf Workshop - developing our compassion and emotional resilience in these troubled times

Hannah Moore

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Restorative Approaches to Building Safety and Inclusion WITH Victims of Domestic Abuse

Gavin Hudson, Remedi

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DOWNLOAD THE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME HERE

EVENT DATE AND TIMES

Date | 21st and 22nd November 2022

Start Time | 09:00

Finish TIme | 17:15

LOCATION

This event is being delivered online via MS Teams

EVENT FEES

We are offering an early bird registration. If you book prior to 3rd October 2022, you will receive our early bird discount (excluding concessions). Conference prices are as follows:

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  BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The following Terms and Conditions apply to this event:

• Payment of the registration fee must be made prior to the event commencing. Where payment has not been received, the RJC reserves the right to cancel your registration
• Registration to participate in individual sessions or days is not available for this event
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In the event that a higher fee becomes payable, the RJC will invoice this amount to the new delegate

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Refunds will only be made to the account from which the payment was received

CONTACT INFORMATION

Contact Name | Jim Simon

Email | enquiries@restorativejustice.org.uk

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