Agenda

Dernière mise à jour: 1er d?cembre 2007

10-11 mars 2008
Tilburg (Pays-Bas)
Developing Standards for Assistance to Victims of Terrorism

This is the final conference of the project “Developing standards for assistance to victims of terrorism”, which is organised by the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT). The project is promoted by the European Forum for Restorative Justice and runs from 1 March 2007 until 30 June 2008. The partners involved are INTERVICT, the Catholic University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven), the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence of the University of St. Andrews, and Victim Support Netherlands.

At the final conference in Tilburg, we will present the standards for assistance to victims of terrorism that were developed in two seminars and the results of the literature review in the presence of Mr. Franco Frattini, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security. On the occasion of the Fourth European Day for the Victims of Terrorism we will listen to victims and their experiences. The role of restorative justice for victims of terrorism will be presented as well as statements by victim support organisations.

The standards are the result of two seminars held in November 2007, in which academic experts, practitioners and policy makers involved in the assistance to victims of terrorism have participated, and will combine the results of follow-up work on these standards. The groundwork for the standards is a literature review, undertaken by researchers at the K.U. Leuven and INTERVICT, and supported by a steering committee of experts composed of the partners involved in the project. The focus of the standards is on the aid and assistance to victims of terrorism at European level, particularly in the field of continuing assistance, access to justice, administration of justice and compensation, including the possible role of restorative justice principles and practices in dealing with victims of terrorism. The overall goal of the project is for the standards to serve as a basis for the further development of services for victims of terrorism in Europe.

Détails:
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/intervict/conference/2008/

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