Source: RJ4All website launched by UK Justice Minister | Restorative Justice for All
Restorative justice happens almost all of the time, but we may not always realise it. In Dr Gavrielides' words, it is "an ethos with practical goals, among which is to restore harm by including affected parties in a (direct or indirect) encounter and a process of understanding through voluntary and honest dialogue". Whenever we mediate and heal conflicts, we are practising restorative justice.
At IARS, we believe in community led solutions to crime and that restorative justice exists not only in governments, big organisations and the official criminal justice system, but also all around us in communities, neighbourhoods, homes, churches, and schools.
Restorative justice happens almost all of the time, but we may not always realise it. In Dr Gavrielides' words, it is "an ethos with practical goals, among which is to restore harm by including affected parties in a (direct or indirect) encounter and a process of understanding through voluntary and honest dialogue". Whenever we mediate and heal conflicts, we are practising restorative justice.
At IARS, we believe in community led solutions to crime and that restorative justice exists not only in governments, big organisations and the official criminal justice system, but also all around us in communities, neighbourhoods, homes, churches, and schools.
We are therefore pleased to launch, as part of our new EU-wide project to shape and implement restorative justice, a new online educational platform, RJ4All,.
This has been created with the aim of providing free, universally and
easily accessible knowledge about restorative justice, for both
practitioners and laypeople.
This website is a joint international initiative hosted by IARS, the RJRN and RJN and supported by a number of partner organisations. As a collaborative, non-profit website, RJ4All aims to:
- increase public awareness of restorative justice and address misconceptions about its potential and pitfalls
- increase academic knowledge and push the boundaries of restorative justice
- bring people together, network and share best practice
- make restorative justice accessible to junior researchers, students, practitioners, policy makers, the public and the media
- disseminate key events and news that are of international, regional and local interest
- inform and influence international, regional and local policy, legislation and practice.
The key features of RJ4All are:
1. The RJwiki a free encyclopedia on restorative justice
2. The Internet Journal of Restorative Justice (IJRJ),
a free peer-reviewed e-journal publishing scientific papers on
restorative justice. The journal offers the opportunity for
less-experienced criminologists and other non-academic researchers or
practitioners to publish their work.
3. The free online library with
downloadable material on restorative justice including training
manuals, conference presentations, research papers and book reviews.
Brenda Morrison, Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice at Simon Fraser University, Canada said: "I'm
delighted to be a part of this initative which will make restorative
justice more accessible, comprehensible, and put it back in the hands of
the community where it belongs."
Prof. Vasso Artinopolou, Professor of Criminology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece said: "This
website is a timely development for the RJ community, allowing
international debates and discussion to help break down the barriers
between practitioners and academics."
Please click through to the site, explore, and let us know what you think! ENJOY!
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