Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice publication promotes community-centered, cross-sectoral approaches and socially integrative methods of youth engagement
Criminal justice reform and the social, economic and racial injustices that underpin societal violence and disproportionally shape politics, policing and judicial systems around the world have been thrust to both the forefront of public consciousness and the top of national and international agendas in recent years.
In response, Salzburg Global Seminar, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the David Rockefeller Fund, launched the Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice initiative, aiming to promote solutions to tackle youth violence and criminal justice reform.
Launched in January 2021 with a series of workshops, the initiative brought together 67 Salzburg Global Fellows, comprising activists, formerly incarcerated persons, policymakers, public officials, researchers and social entrepreneurs from the US and 18 countries around the world, to examine and compile innovative approaches to transforming judicial and prison systems, as well as reducing youth violence and enhancing community safety.
Community-centered, Cross-sectoral and Socially Integrative
This new report—Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice—centers around five sections:
Based on the growing consensus that effective criminal justice reform should look beyond the criminal justice system, each section considers community-centered, cross-sectoral approaches and socially integrative methods of engaging young people and violent offenders before, during, and after they encounter the criminal justice system.
Each section highlights the key challenges and opportunities identified by the initiative’s international participants, with illustrative case studies, recommendations for consideration and action, and suggestions of where the research agenda should focus in future.
Download the Executive Summary as a PDF
Public Webinars
The initiative now continues with a public-facing webinar series, to expand the reach of the report and its recommendaitons. These will take place between late-January and mid-March 2022, and will highlight innovative work carried out by Fellows, with the objective of inspiring policymakers and activists in a position to spearhead new reforms to join the initiative.
Webinar 1: 27 January | Restorative Justice, Rehabilitation, and Healing
Webinar 2: 10 February | Public Health Approaches to Justice
Webinar 3: 23 February | Data-Driven Criminal Justice Reform
Webinar 4: 9 March | Education and Youth Safety
Webinar 5: 22 March | Empathy and Human Dignity
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