Centre Activities by Year

2003 In Review
2004 in Review
2005 in Review
2006 in Review: Justice work is growing throughout Prison Fellowship. National ministries are responding to need for change and government call for input on justice issues. For some, this means starting or expanding programmes such as Communities of Restoration (APAC) or Sycamore Tree Project®. For others, this means developing their own programmes to meet the needs of victims and offenders. The following tables show the growing involvement of national ministries seek to apply Biblical principles of justice and righteousness in their system.
2007 in Review: PF national organisations continue to pursue justice in their countries. PF justice work includes a variety to strategies to improve justice systems including the creation of programmes to meet the needs of victims and offenders, working one government committees related to justice and prison reform and implementing PFI programmes such as the Sycamore Tree Project® and Communities of Restoration. The following table outlines the different strategies and PF national organisation involvement.

Vision and Mission

The mission of the Centre is to develop and promote restorative justice around the world.

The vision of the Centre is that one day restorative justice will be the normal way of responding to crime throughout the world.

Centre Notes

Continuing Support for Restorative Justice by the United Nations

The United Nations continues to promote its basic principles on the use of restorative justice programmes, which it adopted in 2002. You may recall that PFI played a major role in the development and eventual adoption of these guidelines. Now, the criminal justice reform office of the UNODC (UN Office of Drugs and Crime) plans to publish a handbook for countries preparing to use restorative justice programmes in their criminal justice systems. This will be a practical guide for starting programmes and for linking them effectively to police, prosecutors, judges or prisons.

The UNODC held an expert meeting in Vienna at the end of January 2006 to review an initial draft of the handbook. Dan Van Ness, who participated in this meeting, reports that the handbook should be of practical value to PF national ministries as well as their governments.