Victim Support Malta participates in AGIS EU project

2006-2008

Victim Support Malta is one of the partners in a European Union AGIS project on victim-offender mediation services.

AIM & TASKS

The main objective of the project is to realise an effective support to the development of victim-offender mediation in Southern European countries

OUTCOMES

The specific objectives of the project are:

1. to study, at the conceptual and practical level, what the possibilities are for implementing victim-offender mediation in Southern European countries;

2. to discuss how the experience in Central and Northern European countries can inform and support the development of victim-offender mediation in Southern European countries;

3. to prepare strategies for promoting the development of an integrated policy concerning victim-offender mediation in Southern European countries;

4. to actively work towards creating dynamics for exchange and co-operation (networking) between Southern European countries in this field;

5. to discuss what Central and Northern European countries can learn from the developments in criminal justice in Southern European countries; and

6. to study what can be learned from the previous points in terms of policy development concerning victim-offender mediation at the level of the European Union.

PARTICPANTS

• European Forum for Resorative Justice — The lead partner

• Portuguese Association for Victim Support — Partner

• Victim Support Malta — Partner

• Other partners to be decided

PAST ACTIVITIES

• Finalisation of project initial documents

• Meeting with partners in Paris, France

• Compilation of document conerning restorative justice in Malta

• Meeting with partners in Bordeaux, France

• Meeting with partners in Lisbon, Portugal

FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES

• Meeting with partners in Rome, Italy

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