Regional Training Workshop on Restorative Justice Programmes

Agenda

28-30 October 2019 | Bangkok, Thailand

Sapphire I, Novotel Platinum Pratunam

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the scope and content of the UNODC training curriculum;

2. Have a clear understanding of restorative justice, its evidence base, its principles and legal
safeguards;
3. Understand and develop their competence in the process of engaging people in restorative
processes and of facilitating restorative mediation, conferences and circles; and
4. Understand the potential for restorative practices within prisons.

Participants will receive a practice handbook to support the application of their learning. The
workshop will be held in English and will be highly participative.

Monday, 28 October 2019

Time Session

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and opening remarks

 Welcome remarks by Valérie Lebaux, Chief, Justice Section, Division
for Operations, UNODC
 Opening remarks by Dr. Kittipong Kittayarak, Executive Director of
Thailand Institute of Justice

9:30 – 10:15 Introduction to the training workshop

 Tim Chapman, UNODC Consultant on Restorative Justice

10:15 – 10:30 Review of the application of restorative justice processes in participants’

countries

10:30 – 11:15 Session 1: What is restorative justice? Definitions, principles, research

evidence and the importance of legal safeguards and quality assurance

11:15 – 11:30 Group photo and coffee break

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 11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Balancing the needs of victims, perpetrators of harm and
society

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Safely and meaningfully engaging participants in restorative

processes

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 17:00 Session 4: Preparing participants to participate in restorative processes

18:00 onwards Welcome Dinner

Hosted by the Thailand Institute of Justice
Platinum Modern Thai (Novotel Platinum Pratunam Hotel, 6th Floor)

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Time Session

9:00 – 11:00 Session 5: Facilitating mediation

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00 Session 6: Facilitating restorative conferences

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Session 7: Facilitating restorative circles

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:00 Session 8: How will you put this into practice and what are the
obstacles?

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Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Time Session

9:00 – 9:45 Session 9: Understanding the prison experience and inmate culture and
how these can hinder successful rehabilitation and reintegration

9:45 – 11:00 Session 10: An understanding of how the values and principles of
restorative justice can contribute to ‘dynamic security’, desistance and
reintegration

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30 Session 11: Understanding the different situations which might lend
themselves to the application of restorative processes

12:30 – 13:00 Review of the course & closing

Trainer: Tim Chapman

Tim Chapman is a visiting lecturer at the

University of Ulster in Northern Ireland,
UK teaching on the master’s programme
in restorative practices. He has contributed
to the development of restorative justice
practice in both the community and
statutory sectors in Northern Ireland. He
spent 25 years working in the Probation
Service in Northern Ireland. He played an
active part in developing effective
probation practice in the UK particularly
through the publication of Evidence Based
Practice, written jointly with Michael
Hough and published by the Home Office. His ‘Time to Grow’ model for the supervision of young
people has influenced youth justice practices especially in Scotland. He has published widely on
restorative justice and effective practice and has conducted significant research into restorative
justice in Northern Ireland including the ALTERNATIVE project which focused on restorative
justice and intercultural conflict. Two books have been recently published on this research. In 2015
he wrote with Maija Gellin and Monique Anderson A European Model of Restorative Justice with
Children and Young People (IIJO). He is chair of the Board of the European Forum for Restorative
Justice.