About the Organising Institutions:
The Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla was established by an Act of the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in the year 2016 (Act 16 of 2016). In the four years of its foundation, HPNLU, Shimla has seen tremendous growth and has undertaken a good number of innovative measures to enhance the academic potential of its faculty members, students and research scholars.
The Institute of Correctional Administration, Chandigarh started functioning from the year 1989 with full financial assistance from the Central Government. It has been actively involved in imparting training to prison and police officers of the country and also conducting various research activities.
About the Conference:
The Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla in collaboration with the Institute of Correctional Administration, Chandigarh announces an International Conference on “Restorative Justice and the Challenges of Twenty-First Century” on Thursday, the 22nd of October, 2020.
If nothing else, the twentieth and the ongoing twenty-first century have witnessed great upheavals in realms of ideas and practice that have tremendously reshaped social relations, institutional and organisational cultures. Especially after the sweeping impacts of globalisation that have taken over the world, it has become of utmost necessity to pause for a moment and reflect on the fundamentals of our legal and political institutions. Growing crime rates and ever growing prison populations, widespread malnutrition and hunger, underdevelopment and unemployment, sexual violence against women and children, exploitation of various kinds and so many other scenes of gross injustice bring cleavages inherent in the modern liberal episteme to the fore. Crisis laden institutions such as the judiciary, therefore, need to relook at the idea and the conceptualisation and modes of justice delivery as it has governed their raison détre thus far.
Objectives of the Conference:
In line with these observations, the proposed Conference invites papers from academicians and practitioners from fields as diverse as jurisprudence, advocacy and judiciary, academics, policing and prison administration, sociologists, psychologists and criminologists. Papers may be centred around any or more of the following themes:
a. The need and relevance for Restorative Justice in today’s world with a special reference to the Indian context.
b. Exploring the theoretical grounds and challenges of Restorative Justice.
c. Challenges of implementing the ideal of restoration for the legislature, judiciary and the executive.
d. Psycho-social dimensions of harm and victim-offender relationships, Trauma and Healing.
e. Hate crimes, sexual violence against women and children and Restorative Justice.
f. The roadmap for establishing a more efficient judicial system that is sensitive to the idea of restoration.
The Conference shall be attended by distinguished speakers and scholars from various countries such as Sri Lanka, Australia and European countries. Participants will be each speaking about their respective areas of work and the challenges they have faced to be able to arrive at a comprehensive, collective understanding of the various dimensions of Restorative Justice.
Note for Contributors:
Complete papers accompanied with a 250-word long abstract may be sent to [email protected] latest by the 15th of October, 2020. Word limit of individual papers is 4000-7000 words. Authors of selected papers will be intimated accordingly.
Event schedule and other details will be provided to selected speakers and presenters in due course.
Publication:
Selected Papers shall be published in form of a book on Restorative Justice. You are also requested to forward this invitation to others who may be interested.
Contact Details:
Chanchal Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor of Law, HPNLU, Shimla
[email protected]
+91-8076153198
Amit Chaturvedi
Assistant Professor of Sociology, HPNLU, Shimla
[email protected]
+91-9873505126
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