AGIS project

The aim of the programme is to help successfully adopt mediation, gather and disseminate European best practices in this field. A comprehensive theoretical and empirical research (10/2006)will be conducted to explore the attitudes towards Restorative Justice of those involved in law enforcement and non-professionals, and the reasons of their support / rejection, with special regards to juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and bullying.

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About the project

The aim of the programme is to help successfully adopt mediation, gather and disseminate European best practices in this field. A comprehensive theoretical and empirical research (10/2006) will be conducted to explore the attitudes towards Restorative Justice of those involved in law enforcement and non-professionals, and the reasons of their support / rejection, with special regards to juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and bullying.

The partners involved in the 3-month empirical research are representative of recognized experts, training institutes or non-governmetal orgaizations of the field in their own country. Participating countries and institues are Netherlands, Stichting Eigen Centrale – NGO Zolle, individual experts of the field from Germany, and University of Iasi.

During the 2nd phase (04-09/2007), judges, prosecutors, pol. officers and lawyers will have the opportunity to get an insight into the practice of certain technics of mediation of countries where RJ is successfully implemented. In the course of 4-day study trips, 20-20 senior professionals will observe the practice of family group conferencing in the Netherlands, mediation of domestic violence cases in Austria, and restorative justice with juvenile offenders in Germany. A multimedia training package will be compiled on the basis of the outcomes of the research and the study tours – with regards to national specialities -, which contains a CD ROM and a handbook. The topics are: domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, and bullying. The training program will be tried out within a Pilot project in Hungary and Romania. After the evaluation and the monitoring of the outcomes of the Pilot project, the educational program will be finalised and the multimedia packages will be multiplied. Through the pilot project 90 Hungarian and Romanian police officers, prosecutors, judges and lawyers will be trained in three groups. As a final step, a conference (09/2008) will be held in Hungary with 200 participants (those involved in the project, legislators, policy makers).