Research Report

Action Research with Refugee Women: Good Practice and Solutions to Community Participation

Written by: Margaret Greenfields - Director at Institute for Diversity Research at Buckinghamshire New University

This Inventory is focused on identifying organisations that work with young people in Middle East and North African (MENA) region as well as the resources that they produce. The objective of the inventory is to catalogue the various youth organisations in the region as well as their projects, outputs and published resources in order to see the extent of community and social cohesion activities in relation to the benefit of young people and the region specific issues that they face.

Addendum with compilation of country specific research reports

Report on research findings from interviews with victims, offenders and practitioners.

Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS) IARS was funded by Big Lottery under the Young People’2 Fund (Local Grants) to deliver the London Youth Now Project (LYN) with the aim of enabling young Londoners and local organisations providing services to them to enhance quality of life. Focusing on fostering a human rights culture where social cohesion and the reduction of hate attitudes are achieved, the project run over five years.

Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS) IARS was funded by Big Lottery under the Young People’2 Fund (Local Grants) to deliver the London Youth Now Project (LYN) with the aim of enabling young Londoners and local organisations providing services to them to enhance quality of life. Focusing on fostering a human rights culture where social cohesion and the reduction of hate attitudes are achieved, the project run over five years.

HUMAN RIGHTS V. POLITICAL REALITY: THE CASE OF

EUROPE’S CONVERGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS

Theo Gavrielides (LL.B, LL.M, PhD)*

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to continue the discussion on Europe’s converging

criminal justice systems. In particular, I test a hypothesis that has recently

appeared in the literature, which sees the jurisprudence of the European Court of

Human Rights as one of the most significant factors that encourage a harmonization