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Academic Programs with Restorative Justice Components
- Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies of Fresno Pacific University
- Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking of the University of Minnesota
- Eastern Mennonite University Conflict Transformation Program
- Florida Atlantic University Community Justice Institute
- Frank J. Remington Center, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives Association
- Marquette University Law School - Restorative Justice Initiative
- Office of International Criminal Justice - The University of Illinois at Chicago
- The Centre for Restorative Justice - Simon Frasier University. Burnaby, BC, Canada
North American Government Resources
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Sourcebook
- California Community Justice Project is administered by the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts, Center for Families, Children & the Courts and funded by a federal Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) administered by the California Board of Corrections.
- Correctional Service Canada Restorative Justice Week site
- Department of Justice Canada / Le ministère de la Justice Canada
- FedWorld FedWorld: U.S. federal government information server
- FirstGov The starting point for any US government search
- Law Commission of Canada (English or French). This site offers many articles on restorative and participatory justice.
- Library of Congress
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a rich source of information through a group of interlocking web sites.
- Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Online, from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, offers evaluation information and assistance to juvenile justice professionals involved in assessing program effectiveness.
- Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission
- Minnesota Department of Corrections
- United States Department of Justice
- United States Institute of Peace
- Virginia Department of Dispute Resolution Services
VOMA Agency Members
- Barron County Restorative Justice Programs, Inc.
- Clark County Victim Offender Mediation (Vancouver)
- Conflict Mediation Services of Downsview
- The Institute for Conflict Management Santa Ana, CA
- Lancaster Area Victim Offender Reconciliation Program
- Mediation Network of North Carolina
- www.resolutionsnorthwest.org Resolutions Northwest is the largest nonprofit mediation center in Oregon, offering substantial victim offender programs in Portland along with more general mediation services, programs, and training.
- Pennsylvania Office of the Victim Advocate
- Pittsburgh Mediation Center
- Restorative Justice Mediation Program (RJMP) (San Diego)
- Retorative Justice Programs of Taylor County
- Rhode Island Victim Offender Restoration Program
- Victim Offender Conferencing of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- Victim Offender Mediation Project, Topeka, Kansas
- VORP of Boulder County (CO)
- Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley, Inc., Fresno, CA
- Including a word searchable archive of articles on restorative justice by Ron Claassen and others.
North American Organizations
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
- American Arbitration Association
- American Humane Association Family Group Decision-making web site
- Association for Conflict Resolution, the merged form of SPIDR, AFM and CRENet.
- Balanced and Restorative Justice Project
- Calgary Community Conferencing (Canada). Site includes court decisions on RJ.
- Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice (CERJ)
- Center for Court Innovation
- Center for Public and Social Policy, Florida Gulf Coast University.
- College of Professional Mediation, Puerto Rico
- The Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice exists to facilitate the understanding and implementation of restorative and community justice with the communities of Colorado and nationally.
- Colorado School Mediation Project
- Correctional Transition Services Inc. is based in the Twin Cities and offers comprehensive, evidence based programs that help restore the offender to the community.
- Mennonite Central Committee Crime and Justice Issues
- Mennonite Central Committee Canada restorative justice programs
- Community Justice Exchange funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, includes a searchable database of programs, interviews with practitioners, and profiles of community justice projects.
- Directory of California and Nevada Victim Offender Programs
- International Institute for Restorative Practices, Paul McCold's organization.
- Iowa Peace Institute
- Justice Fellowship
- The Justice & Reconciliation Project (JRP) a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing restoration, reconciliation and healing to crime victims and offenders.
- Mediation Information and Resource Center (Mediate.com)
- Mediation and Restorative Justice Centre Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Missouri Victim Assistance national links to crime victim oriented organizations
- Murder Victims' Families For Human Rights
- National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM)
- National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR)
- National Center for State Courts ADR Resources
- National Network on Preventing Crime in the Black Community A clearinghouse for information exchange, research, study and dialogue
- National Network of Violence Prevention Practitioners
- National Center for Victims of Crime
- Nonviolence Web
- Northwest Institute for Restorative Justice, Seattle, WA.
- Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center, San Mateo, CA.
- RealJustice
- Restorative Justice International.org Devoted to implementation of Restorative Justice principles for reconciliation at the societal level, whether tribe, nation or state.
- Restorative Justice Online from Prison Fellowship International
- Restorative Justice Project of Fresno Pacific University. Restorative Justice Implementation, VORP Resource and Training Center. Help for those starting a new VOM program. Word searchable archive of RJ articles.
- The Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Information and Resource Center.
- Victim's Justice Center, Inc. (Indiana)
- Witness Justice committed to directly serving survivors of violent crime in the U.S.
Organizations outside North America
- Center for Community Justice, Puerto Rico
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa)
- Community Restorative Justice Ireland
- Danish Mediation (Dansk Mediation) - a non profit organisation
- Dispute Resolution Center (Nairobi, Kenya)
- European Network for Restorative Justice
- Empowering for Reconciliation.org (Pemberdayaan untuk Rekonsiliasi). Teaching restorative justice skills for societal reconciliation in Indonesia. (Indonesian and English)
- European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. One of VOMA's strategic partners. See their links page for many organizations outside North America with a victim-offender or restorative justice focus. They also have an interesting newsletter in English.
- Indigenous prisoner's in Australia's Northern Territory have developed a website that addresses issues of offending, substance use, culture, etc through art, music and stories.
- Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa. Searchable bibliography on RJ and truth and reconciliation commissions.
- International Victimology Web Site
- La médiation pénale (French language)
- The Mediation Bureau, a not-for-profit agency at Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, has launched a new self-service web site for people who need to find out discreetly and quickly about accessing mediation services.
- Mediation UK
- Nordic Forum for Mediation (NFM)- a non profit organisation, established in 1998 by mediators in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
- National Consultation on Basic Principles for Restorative Justice in Canada.
- Restorative Justice Consortium (UK)
- Restorative Justice Initiatives of Windsor and Essex County (ON, Canada)
- Servicebüro für Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich und Konfliktschlichtung (German language)
- South African Online Crime Research Guide
- South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- The Network Interaction for Conflict Resolution (Canada)
- United Kingdom Home Office restorative justice Web site
- U.N. Crime and Justice Information Network
- University of Capetown Criminology Department Youth Justice page
- Victim-Offender Mediation in Norway (most of the site is in Norwegian)
- Western Australia Department of Justice
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
Informational Sites
- The Alternative Newsletter: A Resource Newsletter on Dispute Resolution
- Careers in Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Press
- Directory of Victim Offender Mediation Programs in the U.S. and bibliography of available resources. From Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking of the University of Minnesota
- Heartspeak Productions helping to build awareness, understanding, and practice of restorative justice through the creation of multimedia resources and through online resources through our website. We produce educational materials for professionals, practitioners, and members of the public.
- Institute for Global Communications
- Jobs -- Restorative Justice, Mediation and Peacebuilding Jobs maintained by VOMA's Webmaster at Fresno Pacific University for those seeking employment in the conflict resolution field. He also maintains a page on careers in conflict resolution.
- Peace & Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado - Boulder
- Peacemaking and Crime page from Prof. John R. Fuller of West Georgia State University
- PeaceNet from Institute for Global Communication
- Restorative Justice Dialogue: Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Studies on Mediation, Conferencing And Circles. US Directory of Victim Offender programs. From Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking of the University of Minnesota
- Restorative Justice Meta-Search. Search the 40 largest RJ web sites at once.
- Transitional Justice Forum
- World Constitutional Law page
- Worldwide Calendar of Peacemaking Events maintained by VOMA's Webmaster at Fresno Pacific University
Commercial Sites
- "Forgiveness" is a 28 min. documentary that explores this mediation option from a psychological and philosophical perspective. Learn more about "Forgiveness" by Mara Alper
- California Newsreel, distributor of Long Night's Journey Into Day, the film story of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- Mediation Manager software
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