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Sycamore Tree Project®
Up one levelRecognizing the needs of crime victims for healing and the need of offenders to take responsibility for their behaviour PF national organisations are implementing the Sycamore Tree Project®. This in-prison restorative justice project brings together unrelated victims and offenders to discuss the impact of crime.
- Facilitating Reconciliation
- Usually the Sycamore Tree Project® brings together victims with “unrelated” offenders, but PF Colombia recently held an STP programme in Bellavista Prison where victims met with the offenders who actually victimized them.
- A Sycamore Tree Project® Story From Costa Rica
- The Sycamore Tree Project® is an in prison restorative justice programme bringing together groups of unrelated victims and offenders to explore issues related to crime. Over a course of 5-8 meetings, the groups discuss crime, its impact, and ways to make things right. Miguel Tello, restorative justice programme manager for the Centre, facilitated the first Sycamore Tree Project® in Costa Rica. In this article, he shares his reflections on the experience.
- Sycamore Tree Project® in Colombia
- PF Colombia has recently completed its first two Sycamore Tree Projects®. One took place in Bellavista prison, involving prisoners convicted of murder and victims who had lost loved ones to murder. The second was in a Medellín neighbourhood that has been racked by violence. Following is one of several stories related by Lácides Hernandez, Board Chairperson of PF Colombia: