The european forum for victim-offender mediation and restorative justice

The European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice is a non-governmental organisation set up because European victim-offender mediation projects had seldom established contacts beyond national borders. Informal contacts revealed that practitioners, academics and policy makers were looking for a more regular exchange and mutual support in developing victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices. This article gives an overview of the background to restorative justice and victim-offender mediation, and pays attention to the development of the Forum, its current aims, objectives and activities, and other (policy) developments at a supranational level. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers.