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Introducing Restorative Justice in Serbia and Montenegro.
In 2003, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) office in Belgrade realized that many of the children they worked with in their child protection programmes in Serbia and Montenegro were also in trouble with the law. A study group was formed to look into the conditions faced by these young people and to proposed ways of moving forward. The group settled on restorative justice as a useful approach for dealing with those conditions and UNICEF undertook a project to develop restorative justice programmes for working with young offenders. A first step was to request training in restorative justice and its applications to youth justice.
Marian Liebmann is a freelance mediator and trainer in the UK. She has
provided training in various African countries and Russia as well as the UK.
UNICEF invited Liebmann to provide training to individuals working in the
Serbian city of Nis in March of 2003. After this initial training, UNICEF
secured a grant from the Swedish government to develop pilot projects in
three sites: two community based programmes and one based in a juvenile
detention centre. Marian was hired to provide the training for these
projects.
This work has included:
Basic mediation training in the Junior Correctional Institution, Krusevac, and a community based programme in the Montenegrin city of Bijelo Poleji
Training in mediation in situations of cultural diversity in all three sites
Training of trainers training in Bijelo Poleji
The funding for these projects will continue through fall of 2006.
For more information on the projects in Serbia and Montenegro, view Marian Liebmann’s full report.
Contact:
Marian Liebmann marian@liebmann.org.uk
Jasna Hrncic: jhrncic@unicef.org
Dusica Vujacic-Richer: dvujacicricher@unicef.org
April 2005
This work has included:
Basic mediation training in the Junior Correctional Institution, Krusevac, and a community based programme in the Montenegrin city of Bijelo Poleji
Training in mediation in situations of cultural diversity in all three sites
Training of trainers training in Bijelo Poleji
The funding for these projects will continue through fall of 2006.
For more information on the projects in Serbia and Montenegro, view Marian Liebmann’s full report.
Contact:
Marian Liebmann marian@liebmann.org.uk
Jasna Hrncic: jhrncic@unicef.org
Dusica Vujacic-Richer: dvujacicricher@unicef.org
April 2005
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