‘Realising Restorative Justice: Human Rights and Personal Realities’
22-24 June 2016, Leiden, Netherlands
The conference will be hosted by the Law School of Leiden University, not so far from the city of The Hague where many international courts and human rights institutes are based. Themes will include children’s rights, victims’ and offenders’ rights, the refugee crisis and radicalization, focusing on how restorative justice may positively contribute to these issues.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bas van Stokkom – Senior researcher at the Faculty of Law of Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) Antony Pemberton – Professor at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT) of Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Simon Green – Senior Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology University of Hull (UK) Hendrik Kaptein – Associate professor at the Philosophy of Law department at Leiden University (The Netherlands) Marta Santos Pais – UN special representative on violence against children (US) Julia Sloth Nielsen – Professor in Children’s Rights in the Developing World at Leiden University & at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) Dan van Ness– Executive Director of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation at Prison Fellowship International (US) Reynaldo Adames – Writer and coach (The Netherlands) Gema Varona – Lecturer in Criminology and Victimology at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) Kilian Kleinschmidt – Human rights activist and refugee expert (Austria)
To view the event programme, logistical information and registration, visit the event page.