ALTERNATIVE ways of handling conflicts in intercultural settings

This presentation describes the set-up of ALTERNATIVE, a European FP7 research project, focused on alternative understandings of justice and security when dealing with conflicts in intercultural settings. The project implements action-research in four intercultural settings with conflict on the micro level (social housing in Vienna), meso level (small community in Hungary) and macro level (Serbia and Northern Ireland). Restorative justice approaches are used in order to evaluate whether justice and security can be understood in a broader manner than just focusing on criminal justice and exclusionary measures such as imprisonment and installing cameras. The scene is set for topics that will be addressed throughout the conference, such as active participation; perceptions of justice and security/safety; the challenges of action-research; and the relation between restorative justice and community development.status: publishe