Voicing youth at social risk. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The goal is to investigate with and from the perspective of young people who are in social exclusion situations (such as refugees, migrants with or without papers, ...
Over the years, truth commissions have become an appealing mechnism for dealing with large scale human rights violations. One of the reasons for this is that they avail more opportunities for dealing with the many shades of grey that characterise most conflicts. The mandates have also evolved beyond establishing the truth. It is now common for truth commissions to propose measures or reparations programmes for victims as ...
This dissertation provides a first provisional answer to the following central research question:
Why do some long-term prisoners max out from prison, rather than obtain a modality of early release?
The dissertation includes a brief introduction, four substantive chapters and a discussion and conclusion.
The first chapter provides a sketch of the available empirical evidence about maxing out from ...
The dissertation explores critically the potential and the limits of the restorative justice discourse in addressing conflicts in intercultural contexts in Europe, as an alternative discourse on both justice and security. The exploration revolves around two main questions: 1. How can we conceptualise the application of restorative justice at a range of community-based and social conflicts?; 2. How can ...