Full Description
The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat. This book challenges predominant and fear inducing approaches of justice and security as they appear in intercultural contexts, and develops alternative understandings by exploring both theoretically and empirically the potential of dialogic and restorative justice oriented actions in sensitive areas of living together. The book offers unique opportunities for rethinking frames of (in)justice, (in)security, and their intersections, and for reshaping European practices and policies in a more sustainable way.
This book is based on an innovative and exploratory action research project in four European countries, which challenges the obsessive focus on security concerns, the merging of the security discourse with intercultural contexts, and the emphasis on technology and surveillance as a way to conceive the doing of security. Both the project and the book offer another vision on what security means and how it can be done, by multiplying participatory encounters between different groups in society, promoting opportunities for deliberations and dialogue about alternative forms of conviviality.
The book is one of two volumes resulting from the work by a group of researchers in six European countries having cooperated intensively during four years in ALTERNATIVE, an action research project funded under the EU Seventh Framework Programme.
Contents
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
