Lack of public awareness about, support for, and participation in restorative justice is an issue which puzzles many restorative justice practitioners, activists and scholars. Starting from this concern, the European Forum for Restorative Justice and several other partners involved in the field, elaborated several ideas on how to think about this issue in a constructive way and identified three fields of cooperation which would improve public awareness, support and participation in relation to restorative justice.
To concretise the ideas, the European Forum for Restorative Justice implemented a two year project co-financed by the European Commission called “Building social support for restorative justice”. The project “Building Social Support for Restorative Justice” has tried to answer three main questions: 1) how can cooperation with the media be set up to inform and educate the public about restorative justice?; 2) how can cooperation be developed with civil society organisations to create broad support for restorative justice?; 3) how can we increase the involvement of citizens in local restorative justice programmes?
Lack of public awareness about, support for, and participation in restorative justice is an issue which puzzles many restorative justice practitioners, activists and scholars. Starting from this concern, the European Forum for Restorative Justice and several other partners involved in the field, elaborated several ideas on how to think about this issue in a constructive way and identified three fields of cooperation which would improve public awareness, support and participation in relation to restorative justice.
To concretise the ideas, the European Forum for Restorative Justice implemented a two year project co-financed by the European Commission called “Building social support for restorative justice”. The project “Building Social Support for Restorative Justice” has tried to answer three main questions: 1) how can cooperation with the media be set up to inform and educate the public about restorative justice?; 2) how can cooperation be developed with civil society organisations to create broad support for restorative justice?; 3) how can we increase the involvement of citizens in local restorative justice programmes?