Criminal Justice Panel

Over the past two years we have all experienced unprecedented challenges through the imposed restrictions on our day-to-day lives but we have also witnessed many examples of communities coming together to provide support, heal and rebuild. Despite this, we are still living in troubled times. We are increasingly seeing cases of interpersonal violence within our communities and find ourselves in times where war, conflict and premeditated acts of violence are becoming more commonplace. Class, gender, generational, religious, racial differences, political and social polarisation continue to leave our communities divided and disconnected and the notion of a just society all the more out of reach. This is why during this year’s conference we want to explore the potential for restorative justice and practices as an approach to building resilience within our communities. Thus, the theme of the 4th annual RJC conference is ‘Living in Troubled Times - Restorative approaches to building resilience’