RESTORATIVE PRACTICES FORUM (NI)
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES FORUM (NI)
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Our Aim
Aim: To promote restorative justice philosophy and restorative practices across all aspects of life and society.
'Restorative Justice works to resolve conflict and repair harm. It encourages those who have caused harm to acknowledge the impact of what they have done and gives them an opportunity to make reparation. It offers those who have suffered harm the opportunity to have their harm or loss acknowledged and amends made.'
Restorative Practices Forum (NI)
Our Membership
Our History
The Forum began life as the Restorative Justice Working Group in 1994 formed following a Restorative Justice Conference that year. The group aimed to establish restorative justice as an integral part of the criminal justice system and not just as an adjunct to it.
Following the “10 Years On” conference organised by the RJWG in 2004, the group re-established itself as a Forum, reflecting a change in emphasis, acknowledging that the day to day work is now being done by a wide range of organisations and sectors.
Voluntary/Community sector
Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI)
Consensus Restorative Justice & Mediation
Extern
Family Group Conference (NI)
NIACRO
Northern Ireland Alternatives
Prison Fellowship NI
Quaker Service
Resolve
Restorative Practices Ireland (RPI)
Victim Support NI
Statutory Sector
Commission for Victims & Survivors
Department of Justice NI
Law Society
NI Prison Service
Police Service NI
Probation Board NI
Public Prosecution Service NI
Youth Justice Agency NI
Education and Training
Education Authority
Hazelwood Integrated College, Belfast
Priory Integrated College, Holywood
St Malachy’s High School, Castlewellan
Time-Out Assessment Centre
Queen’s University Belfast
Ulster University
Judiciary & Magistracy
Retired Resident Magistrate
Retired Judge
Independent
Consensus NI Restorative Solutions
Netcare NI
Partnerships
The Forum is closely associated with Restorative Practices Ireland
The Forum’s Events Planning Sub Group set up a meeting in September 2012 with practitioners and colleagues from across Ireland to ascertain if there was an appetite for an all-island conference to run during International Restorative Justice Week 2013. This resulted in the birth of the Restorative Connections Planning Group which went on to develop the concept and plan logistics for a major all Ireland Conference attended by 150 people from across Ireland in November 2013 in Dundalk.
All-Ireland approach
Current Sub-Groups
Events Planning Sub-Group & Education Sub-Group
Our Method
2019 Restorative Practices International Conference
Bringing 25 Years of Learning into
the Future
Since then, further seminars have been held
-Restorative Connections Education Symposium, 20th April 2018, Newry.
Symposium Report: Irish News 24 apr 18.docx
-Restorative Justice: Meeting the needs of victims of crime?26th May 2015, The Probation Service Headquarters, Haymarket Dublin 7. Victim Seminar Report May 2015.doc Restorative Justice: Empowering, Effective, Engagement with Young People, 1st October 2015. The Redeemer Family Resource Centre Dundalk.
-2nd all Ireland Conference: The second all Ireland Conference was held on 25th-26th May 2016 at the Institute of Technology, Dundalk
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Photographs
Presentations
Documents and more
Publications
Mapping Report -
Restorative Practices in Northern Ireland, Nov 2010
Restorative Justice -
A Guide For Young People
Knowledge Exchange Report -
02-04 April 2019
Ulster University