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AIC Restorative Justice in Australia

The Australian Institute of Criminology is the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information. The Institute draws on information supplied to it by a wide variety of sources and its policy advice is objective and independent. It contains papers, links and bibliography, particularly with an Australian emphasis but good coverage of other parts of the world as well.

Arrowsmith Community Justice Society

The Arrowsmith Community Justice Society (ACJS) is a community organization whose purpose is to administer a community-based restorative justice program which promotes conferencing as a resolution and peacemaking mechanism for conflict in the community and to involve interested community citizens and resources to accomplish the above services. The ACJS operates in British Columbia, Canada in the communities of Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Regional District of Nanaimo Areas E, F, G & H. (excerpt from website).

Atlantic Community Justice Project

The Atlantic Community Justice Project was a one-year project of the Atlantic Coordinating Committee on Crime Prevention and Community Safety in partnership with the Correctional Service of Canada.

Barron County Restorative Justice Programs, Inc.

Barron County (Wisconsin) Restorative Justice Programs, Inc., is a private non-profit corporation whose purpose is to provide inspiration, leadership and information sharing in the development and support of various models of justice which create opportunities for dialogue between victims, offenders and their communities for the purpose of healing and restoration. BCRJP runs several programs, including a Victim Offender Conferencing program, Victim Impact Panels, a Teen Court and a Restorative School Discipline program.

Borbala Fellegi

Borbala Fellegi is a researcher in the area of restorative justice in Budapest, Hugary. This website contains various reports and papers based on her research.

Boulder County Restorative Justice Resource

This site provides a gateway to organizations working with restorative practices in Bounlder County, Colorado.

Building Partnerships in and around Families.

The North Carolina Family Group Conferencing (NC-FGC) Project started in the fall of 1998 and ended in the summer of 2002. Over this four-year period, the project promoted the use of family group conferencing (FGC) through training, evaluation, and publication. (from website)

Calgary Community Conferencing

Calgary Community Conferencing brings together a young person and their victim(s), their respective families and supporters, other key people affected by the conflict and relevant community members to find solutions beneficial to all. Referrals may come from Youth Court following a guilty plea as a pre-disposition measure or from junior and senior high schools as an extrajudicial (alternative to charges) measure.

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University provides teaching and training to further the personal and professional development of individuals as peacebuilders and to strengthen the peacebuilding capacities of the institutions they serve. Its Practice Institute works in the areas of restorative justice, conflict transformation, peacebuilding and trauma healing with a special focus on the integration of these areas.

Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

The Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking provides resources, training, papers, links and bibliography relating to restorative justice and victim offender mediation. Its Executive Director is Dr. Mark Umbreit, a researcher and pioneer in victim offender mediation. It is a part of the School of Social Work and the College of Human Ecology at the University of Minnesota.

Central Virginia Restorative Justice

Central Virginia Restorative Justice brings together victims, offenders and other people impacted by crime to work through a ‘process of accountability and repair.’ This website provides a brief overview of the organization and its programmes.

Centre For Restorative Justice, Australian National University

The Centre for Restorative Justice undertakes high quality theoretical and empirical research on various aspects of this rapidly growing field. Its mission is to ensure that the Australian National University remains a world leader in restorative justice scholarship and a leading trainer of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the field.

Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University

The Centre for Restorative Justice at Simon Fraser University provides a focal point for faculty, students and members of the community to explore a broad range of restorative justice issues. The Centre maintains facilities, materials, services, personnel and other resources dedicated to the study, teaching and practice of restorative justice

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is a multi-disciplinary South African non-governmental organization concerned with policy formation, implementation, service delivery, education and training, as well as providing consultancy services. The CSVR operates its own Trauma Clinic providing counseling services for both victims and perpetrators of violence. As such, in its fields of violence, reconciliation and conflict management, and in its ability to integrate many different disciplines in this field, the CSVR is unique in the world.

Chilliwack Restorative Justice & Youth Diversion Association

This group of volunteers in British Columbia is dedicated to providing the motivation and personal help to keep a first-time offender from becoming a repeat offender. They will help an offender understand the impact of his or her action on the community, the victim, the family and his/herself. They will also help an offender and his or her family access other help in the community, if needed.

Church Council on Justice and Corrections

The Church Council on Justice and Corrections, headquartered in Ottowa, Ontario, is a national coalition of faith-based individuals and churches who seek a more humane way of doing criminal justice - primarily by education, advocacy and community development initiatives that foster healthier communities and crime prevention through social responsibility.

Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice

The Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice exists to foster understanding and implementation of restorative community justice principles and values. We collaborate with communities, organizations, foundations, the criminal justice system and state leadership to work for safe and healthy communities.

Colorado School Mediation Project

The Colorado School Mediation Project (CSMP), founded in 1987, is a regional nonprofit organization with national connections that is dedicated to creating safe, caring and just communities where conflicts are resolved productively and differences are valued. CSMP works with educators, administrators, youth organizations and school communities to design, implement and evaluate a conflict resolution education program for their site.

Community Conferencing Center

The mission of the Community Conferencing Center is to provide a highly participatory, community-based process for people to transform their conflicts into cooperation, take collective and personal responsibility for action, and improve their quality of life.

Community Council Project of Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto

Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto (ALST) is a multi-service legal agency serving Toronto's Aboriginal community. The Community Council is a criminal diversion program for adult Aboriginal offenders who live in Toronto. The project takes Aboriginal offenders out of the criminal justice system and brings them before members of the Aboriginal community. The members of the Council are men and women who represent a cross-section of Toronto's Aboriginal community. The focus of the Community Council is to develop a plan by consensus that will allow the offender to take responsibility for his/her actions, address the root causes of the problem, and reintegrate him/her into the community in a positive way.

Community Justice Exchange

The Community Justice Exchange, centered in New York City, offers information, assistance, and contact with community justice practitioners to help bring together criminal justice agencies and ordinary citizens to make communities safer.

Community Mediation Center

The Community Mediation Center of Harrisonburg, VA offers a wide variety of mediation and training services for individuals and organizations in the community including restorative justice initiatives.

Conflict Research Consortium

The Conflict Research Consortium at the University of Colorado is a joint university-community program that unites researchers, educators, and practitioners from many fields for the purposes of theory-building, testing, disseminating, and applying new management techniques to address difficult, long-term, and intractable conflicts.

Consulting and Conciliation Service

The goals of CCS are to provide an atmosphere of acceptance and tolerance for the uncertainty that conflict presents, as well as personal guidance to individuals in learning to manage conflict without the use of third party intervention.

Correctional Services Canada

Provides information on restorative justice activities in Canada, especially restorative justice week.

Crime Victims for A Just Society

Crime Victims for a Just Society provides an opportunity for crime victims and others who care to lend their voices and their talents to efforts to create a more just society. Through outreach, education, and training, we can offer information and expertise in cutting-edge concepts, from community policing to restorative justice to violence reduction through a public-health model.

Deep Humanity Institute

Deep Humanity Institute is a nonprofit corporation that provides learning adventures in community building, peacemaking, communication, and restorative justice.

Dispute Resolution Foundation

Dispute Resolution Foundation is a Jamaican NGO promoting the use of mediation throughout Jamaica. The organization offers mediation training, mediation services, and Justice Centre staffing.

European Forum for Restorative Justice

The general aim of the Forum is to help establish and develop victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices throughout Europe.

Family Group Decision Making Project: Newfoundland and Labrador

This study evaluated the outcomes from an implementation study in which 32 families sampled to yield difficult abuse/neglect situations; 472 people took part in 37 conferences; and 3 diverse sites --­ Inuit, rural, and urban --­ hosted the project in Newfoundland & Labrador. The implementation study was funded through Family Violence Initiatives (Health, Justice, and Solicitor General of Canada) and co-sponsored in Nain by the Labrador Inuit Health Commission.

Fort Collins , CO --Restorative Justice Youth Conferencing.

Restorative Justice Youth Conferencing (RJYC) is available for the resolution of crimes committed by some youth (ages 10-18). Instead of going through the traditional criminal justice system, the youth offender participates in a community conference. (excerpt)

Fraser Region Community Justice Initiative

CJI is a non-profit society based in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The agency has more than 20 years of experience providing conflict resolution services within a restorative justice framework in such settings as the criminal justice system, workplace, community, institutions, organizations, churches, schools and businesses, and for private individuals. First organized through the efforts of Langley Mennonite Fellowship, CJI has grown into a multi-faceted organization that operates a number of programs and offers extensive training services.

Fraser-Burrard Community Justice Society

The Fraser-Burrard Community Justice Society provides restorative processes for responding to youth crime.

Glasgow Restorative Justice Service

The Restorative Justice Service was formed in April 2003 and officially launched in August of the same year. The service works in partnership with a number of agencies including Strathclyde Police, the Children's Reporter, Strathclyde Fire and Rescue, British Transport Police along with City Council services such as Culture & Leisure Youth Services. (excerpt)

Heartspeak Productions

Heartspeak Productions seeks to help build awareness, understanding and practice of restorative justice through the creation of multimedia resources, and dialogue with others passionate about the cause. By producing educational materials for professionals, practitioners and members of the public, we hope to contribute to collective efforts to build and maintain healthier and safer communities. (Description from website).

INCORE

INCORE aims to address the management and resolution of conflict via a combination of research, training, and other activities which inform and influence national and international organisations working in the field of conflict. Includes thematic resource pages on Restorative Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Mediation.

Inside Out Trust

This Inside Out Trust develops in prison programming based on restorative justice principles.

International Forgiveness Institute

The International Forgiveness Institute seeks to disseminate sound, accurate information about forgiveness to people across the globe. They engage as well in action-oriented programs, helping individuals, families, and communities to explore and implement forgiveness for the purpose of restoring healthy emotions, rebuilding relationships, and establishing more peaceful communities.

International Institute of Restorative Practices

The International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) is a non-profit organization that provides education, consulting and research in support of the development of restorative practices around the world (from website).

International Victimology Website

The Government of the Netherlands sponsors this website, which presents a database on national practices, case law and legislation, and use and application of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power. The IVW was launched in June 1999 as a resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power.

Just Peace International

Just Peace International is a civil society initiative in Pakistan that promotes methods of conflict transformation. It highlights resources in regional languages as well as English on restorative justice, Pukhtoon Jirga and peace building.

JustPeace: Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation

JUSTPEACE is a mission of The United Methodist Church to engage conflict constructively in ways that strive for justice, reconciliation, resource preservation and restoration of community in and through The United Methodist Church and with the Church universal to the world in which we live. (from the website)

Justice Fellowship

Justice Fellowship, a non-profit public policy organization, is dedicated to advancing Biblically based restorative justice principles throughout the United States.

Justice Reflections

Justice Reflections is a journal “linking Christian ideas with matters of justice." This site provides information about the journal, subscriptions, free sample articles, and tables of contents from each issue.

Khulisa

Khulisa is a non-governmental organization providing community development programmes and reintegration and rehabilitation programmes for at-risk youth and young offenders. Restorative justice philosophy underpins the organization's work to rebuild relationships between the offenders, their families and the community.

Leeds Youth Offending Service

Leeds Youth Offending Team works with children, young people and their families to prevent and to challenge offending, encourage responsibility, to develop victim empathy and reduce the fear of crime within the community (excerpt from site).

Matt 5-9

This website is set up to be a resource for individuals seeking to use restorative practices in church settings.

Mediation Information and Resource Center

Mediate.com features over 800 Articles and 5,500 professional members in our international Locate A Mediator Directory. Our vision is to make mediation and conflict resolution information and education available to the widest possible audience.

Mediation Northern Ireland

Mediation Northern Ireland provides several services in the area of conflict resolution, including training in conflict resolution.

Mediation UK

Mediation UK is a national voluntary organization dedicated to developing constructive means of resolving conflicts in communities.

Mennonite Central Committee, Restorative Justice

This page of the Mennonite Central Committee's website lists restorative justice resources available from the MCC, links to organizations using restorative practices in Canada, and more general resources.

Minnesota Department of Corrections: Restorative Justice

This site includes descriptions of circles and other restorative programs in place in the State of Minnesota, as well as articles by Kay Pranis.

Minnesota Restorative Service Coalition

MRSC exists as a statewide coalition to promote restorative philosophy and quality restorative services for individuals, communities and organizations.(From the website)

Montana Department of Justice

Montana communities have implemented a number of programs based on this philosophy, including victim/offender meetings, family group conferencing, sentencing circles, the use of victim and community impact statements, restitution programs, victim awareness education, school expulsion alternatives, diversion programs and community panels. (excerpt)

National Association for Community Mediation

The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) is the only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to community-based mediation programs. The organization’s purpose is to support the maintenance and growth of community-based mediation programs and processes, to present a compelling voice in appropriate policy-making, legislative, professional, and other arenas, and to encourage the development and sharing of resources for these efforts.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

The NCJRS is sponsored by a number of agencies of the US Justice Department. This database provides abstracts and in some instances full texts of articles and research in all aspects of criminal justice, with a substantial number of restorative justice materials.

National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution

The National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution (NIACR) was founded for the purpose of advancing the field of conflict resolution in the United States, and promoting a greater understanding of the role of mediation in resolving disputes. This website was created not only to provide an online resource for practicing mediators, but also to make available to the general public information about issues pertaining to mediation and conflict resolution. (description from website)

National Organization for Victim Assistance

NOVA is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization of victim and witness assistance programs and practitioners, criminal justice agencies and professionals, mental health professionals, researchers, former victims and survivors, and others committed to the recognition and implementation of victim rights and services.

New York State Community Justice Forum

This site provides news of interest in the state of New York.

North Carolina Family Group Conferencing Project

This project, conducted by a training and evaluation team from NC State University’s Social Work Program, uses Family Group Conferencing to develop partnerships among families, neighbors, community members and leaders, and public agencies that protect, nurture, and safeguard children and other family members by building on the strengths of the family and their community.

PeaceVox.com

PeaceVox works to link the energies of the arts and peacebuilding, and reflect the experiences of people involved in conflict resolution and peacebuilding work. It explores the ways in which the arts can place experiences of conflict in context and encourage change and engagement. PeaceVox overcomes the barriers of geography, technology, time, and finances. Informed by theories of social change, PeaceVox gives voice to those working for peace through a creative forum.

Peacemakers Trust

Peacemakers Trust is a Canadian non-profit with the mandate to develop and support research, education, training, and other activities concerning conflict resolution, good governance and peacebuilding.

Pennsylvania Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers

This resource website for Juvenile Probation officers offers different resources on Balanced and Restorative Justice.

Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges' Commission

Pennsylvania is moving toward the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model in its juvenile justice system. This site offers some of the resources that have been developed.

RESTORE Program

A programme of the University of Arizona MEZA College of Public Health, RESTORE offers alternatives to survivors of sexual assault and those committing such offenses.

Real Justice

REAL JUSTICE is a not-for-profit program dedicated to fostering the spread of "conferencing," a restorative justice process. This site contains papers, bibliography, and resources concerning restorative justice, conferencing, and the REAL JUSTICE program.

Relationships Foundation

The Relationships Foundation seeks to see the importance of relationships recognised and acted upon at all levels of public life and, by doing so, help create an environment where relationships can flourish. The Relationships Foundation's first project was relational justice.

Restorative Justice - In a Nova Scotian Context

PRovides information on the use of restorative justice in Nova Scotia for victims, offenders and volunteers.

Restorative Justice Center-South Africa

This RJ center in Pretoria, South Africa recognizes that there are many different Restorative Justice approaches and methods. They have tried to gather as many of these as possible on this website, as well as specific programmes within the Restorative Justice field.

Restorative Justice Community Action, Inc.

Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA) works in Minneapolis neighborhoods to enhance offender accountability for urban livability crimes by empowering local citizens to participate directly in the justice process. (excerpt)

Restorative Justice Consortium

The Restorative Justice Consortium was formed in 1997 bringing together a wide range of organisations with an interest in Restorative Justice. The organisations represented victims, offenders, young people and mediators, and those with a professional interest in RJ.

Restorative Justice Initiative, Marquette Law School

The Restorative Justice Initiative of Marquette Law School’s Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution promotes scholarship, research, and dialogue on restorative justice. The Initiative serves as a resource for victims, communities, and restorative justice organizations, and as a restorative justice clinical experience for law students.

Restorative Justice Ireland Network

EXTERN in partnership with the Irish Penal Reform Trust has set up a "Restorative Justice Ireland Network" to assist in: promoting the concept; compiling a directory of restorative projects; providing information; and organising conferences and training events. This site contains links and papers.

Restorative Justice Programs of Taylor County

Restorative Justice Programs of Taylor County will continue, enhance and expand restorative justice based programs designed to reduce juvenile delinquency and recidivism by creating stronger bonds between juvenile offenders, their victims and the community as a whole.(excerpt)

Restorative Justice Project

Restorative Justice Project (RJP) is a program of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies (PACS) at Fresno Pacific University. It serves as a resource and training center. The site contains papers, bibliography and information about project events.

Restorative Justice Project of the Frank J. Remington Center

The Remington Center’s Restorative Justice Project offers law students an opportunity to work outside of the adversarial processes which characterize most of the criminal justice system. The project gives students the opportunity to practice mediation skills and assess the effectiveness of an alternative dispute resolution process in the criminal justice field.

Restorative Justice Trust

The Restorative Justice Trust was incorporated to educate in and promote best practice in restorative justice processes in New Zealand.

Restorative Justice Unit New South Wales Dept. of Corrective Services

The Restorative Justice Unit is a section of the NSW Department of Corrective Services set up in 1999 as a three year pilot project to provide post-sentence Victim-Offender Family Group Conferencing and Protective Mediation.

Restorative Justice in Scotland

The goal of the Restorative Justice in Scotland website is: 1)To provide up-to-date information about the use of restorative justice in Scotland; 2) To provide a service to the restorative justice community in Scotland; 3) To enable the wider international community to gain insight into the current status of restorative justice applications in Scotland.

Restorative Justice: Healing the Effects of Crime

This page, facilitated by Tom Cavanagh, contains several forums and a set of papers with opportunities for dialogue.

Restore Justice.com

RestoreJustice.com is an outreach of the California Catholic Conference offering healing and support to everyone affected by the criminal justice system throughout the U.S. This site is made possible by a grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. (Excerpt)

Solon's Voyage: Dispute Resolution

Part of a larger site of links to law-related sites. This contains several articles and an extensive set of links related to dispute resolution and restorative justice.

South St. Paul Restorative Justice Council

The South St. Paul Restorative Justice Council is a community based organization offering restorative justice services in a variety of areas.

StopViolence

StopViolence is an ongoing project of Dr Paul Leighton and his students at Eastern Michigan University, related to social problems and violence. It includes a review of state restorative justice legislation in the United States.

The Forgiveness Project

The Forgiveness Project works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict and violence by healing the wounds of the past. By collecting and sharing people’s stories, and delivering outreach programmes, The Forgiveness Project encourages and empowers people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to revenge. (description from website)

Transforming Conflict, National Centre for Restorative Justice in Education

Transforming Conflict offers training, consultancy and support in educational settings for people seeking to enhance their skills in building a sense of community, fostering a spirit of inclusion and dealing creatively with challenging situations. Underpinned by a restorative justice philosophy, the organisation works in primary, secondary and EBD settings in the UK and has run both public and customised courses.

Turning Point Partners

Turning Point Partners is committed to facilitation of social change by providing Restorative Justice programs and Community Building Circles to create safe communities in which isolation and fear of differences are overcome.

VORP Information and Resource Center

The VORP Information and Resource Center is a resource, training and service providing organization. The Director, Marty Price, specializes in drunk driving fatality cases. The site includes articles, papers, links and organizational information.

VORP of Boulder County

The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) of Boulder County has offered restorative justice services to Boulder County, Colorado since 1993. This website presents descriptions of the organization's programmes.

Victim Offender Mediation Association

VOMA is a membership organization of persons involved in or interested in victim offender mediation. The site contains information about the association, copies of its publications, its recommended ethical guidelines, and several papers.

Victorian Association for Restorative Justice

The Victorian Association for Restorative Justice (VARJ) represents restorative practitioners, thinkers and policy makers in Victoria. The aim of the association is to promote and support best practice in all forms of restorative practice. (excerpt from site).

W. Haywood Burns Institute

The Burns Institute is a new voice in juvenile justice that addresses the needs of poor youth and young people of color, their families, and communities. The Burns Institute also sponsors dialog on restorative justice.

Youth Justice Board-Restorative Justice

The Youth Justice Board is an integral part of the juvenile justice system in England and Wales. This section on restorative justice provides information about the governments objectives, guidelines, and descriptions of programmes.

Youth Restorative Action Project

YRAP is a Youth Justice Committee, which originated in Edmonton and is now located in Ottawa as well, and is sanctioned under section 18 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. YRAP is the first committee of its kind mandated to work, in Youth Court, with Young People who have caused harm as a result of racism, intolerance, and significant social issues. YRAP meets with young offenders to discuss the harm that has been caused by criminal action, and come up with creative, effective resolutions to repair the harm and address the actions of the youth, in a way which is both educational and rehabilitative. In addition, YRAP is the world's only Youth Justice Committee made up entirely of youth members (ages 15-24) all of whom come from diverse ethnic, social and economic backgrounds, and share a common wish to make a positive impact for their community. (description from website)