Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms and Conflicts

Speaker: Dr Brunilda Pali, Assistant Professor of Conflict Dynamics and Resolution at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Abstract:

The presentation spells out the reasons of why a restorative engagement with environmental issues is important. The presentation draws on different areas of application - from criminal justice applications to regulation and artistic interventions- and aims at giving a broad overview on international perspectives on environmental restorative justice.

Bio:

Brunilda Pali is Assistant Professor of Conflict Dynamics and Resolution at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). She is affiliated with the Program Group Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance; she is also an Affiliated Researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium); and Vice-Chair of the Board of European Forum for Restorative Justice.

Dr. Pali has an interdisciplinary and intercultural background: she has studied Psychology at the University of Bosphorus in Istanbul (Turkey), Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest (Hungary), Cultural Studies at Bilgi University in Istanbul (Turkey), and Criminology at KU Leuven (Belgium).

After gaining her PhD at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at KU Leuven (Belgium), she worked as a senior researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the same university and as adjunct professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School (USA). She serves as Vice-Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice Researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium), is co-founder of the multidisciplinary collective The Voice of Nature Kinstitute led by environmental artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, and founding member of the non- for-profit organization Leuven Restorative City.

In her research and teaching, Brunilda Pali focuses on:

The development of restorative justice and alternative approaches to punishment.
The application of restorative approaches to environmental and social conflicts and harms.
Criminalization of environmental activism and solidarity.

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