Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe

Brunilda Pali is a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology. She has worked as a researcher on several EU-funded projects, besides the FP7 project ALTERNATIVE. She publishes on multiple themes, including restorative justice, critical criminology, security, social movements, gender, and arts. She is co-editor of the book ‘Critical Restorative Justice’. Ivo Aertsen is Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven and leads the Leuven Institute of Criminology Research Line on ‘Restorative Justice and Victimology’. His main fields of research and teaching are victimology, penology and restorative justice. He is Editor-in-Chief of 'Restorative Justice: An International Journal'. He was the academic coordinator of the European FP7 project ALTERNATIVE.

Introduction : Doing restorative justice in intercultural contexts, Ivo Aertsen, 1. Difference as culture: Roots and implications of a mode of framing, Ida Hydle and Marie Louise Seeberg, 2. Mapping the cultural turn in (in)security discourses: Highlighting the path for restorative justice, Brunilda Pali, 3. In the name of security: Justice under threat or restored? Tim Chapman, 4. Restorative justice: Doing justice and security? Christa Pelikan and Ivo Aertsen, 5. Restorative justice and urban citizenship: A comparative dialogue between Vienna and Brussels, Erik Claes and Katrin Kremmel, 6. Counteracting social exclusion through restorative approaches, Gabor Hera, 7. Re-imagining security and justice in post-conflict societies through restorative lenses, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Sanja Copic, Nikola Petrovic and Bejan Šaciri, 8. Security and justice in transition: Restorative justice and the politics of hope in Northern Ireland, Derick Wilson and Hugh Campbell, 9. Community in conflict in intercultural contexts and how restorative justice can respond, Tim Chapman and Katrin Kremmel, 10. Critical reflections on active participation under new governance models, Christa Pelikan and Mario Ragazzi, 11. Restorative justice in the societies of control: The ambivalence of decentralised state control in participative justice processes, Espen Marius Foss and Brunilda Pali, 12. Looking at the European policy level: the place of restorative justice in intercultural environments, Edit Torzs, Katrien Lauwaert and Ivo Aertsen, Conclusion: Restorative justice - A tool for conviviality, Brunilda Pali