CoE – Improving the child justice system in Slovenia

2022- 2023 | I collaborate as a child justice international expert, providing research, technical and methodological advice, and co-drafted the methodology for the Comparative study of European standards and promising practices with targeted recommendations for the Slovenian context, as well as the questionnaire to collect promising practices among CoE member states.

UNICEF Georgia – International Conference on Restorative Justice

October 2023 | I joined the International Conference on the Role of Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters to share my expertise and to present on the main findings of my PhD research on diversion across Europe

FOCUS ON MY NEEDS: WORKING TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

2020-2022 | As Terre des hommes in-house consultant, I supported the FOCUS core team of experts to provide technical guidance and quality assurance for the research and capacity building activities.

I-RESTORE: PROTECTING CHILD VICTIMS THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

2019-2021 | As independent consultant on child justice, I was member of the Restorative Justice Advisory Board, that provides feedback on the materials produced and ensure quality throughout. I provided feedback on the methodology used for the European research and on the training handbook and materials developed by the experts from the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) and Restorative Justice Netherlands (RJN).

TRAINING TRAINERS IN MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE – THE TOOLKIT OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT MEDIAREJ

I co-authored the article in the toolkit on “Restorative justice with children and young people in relation to criminal behaviour“. This toolkit is a collection of articles that focus on different areas of application for mediation and restorative justice and that present each area with practical implications and suggestions aimed at supporting trainers on restorative justice.

PAN-AFRICAN RESEARCH ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WITH CHILDREN

2018-2020 | As lead consultant in a team of researchers, I harmonised and consolidated data on diversion and restorative justice with child offenders, collected from six African countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya.