There is an interesting project in Brazil of prison runned by civil society called APAC (Associação de Proteção aos Condenados) - Inmate's Protection Association. It has able to reduce redicivism among offenders with high rates. The key is bring the families to participate in the sentence process. I don´t know if restorative justice practices are applyied in this context, but it is a very interesting experiment.

Thank you very much, Vicente. Yes, I know that one and it is a very interesting and effective program, clearly including restorative practices within the program. However, I have not heard of it being applied to radicalisation and extremism, yet.

Hi Claudia, I am not aware of any specific work relating to 'radicalisation' and 'extremism.' However, these are dense terms, which I feel you should critically unpack. Perhaps doing so will provide you and us with more avenues to explore. Your question did make me think of the long history of restorative justice efforts with former combatants in the north of Ireland (who could be framed as having been radicalised and extremists, but to others could be considered freedom fighters and democratic).

Here are some links that may be of assistance:

http://www.c-r.org/accord/engaging-armed-groups-insight/northern-ireland-punishment-restorative-justice-northern

http://www.justiciarestaurativa.org/www.restorativejustice.org/university-classroom/02world/europe1/alldocs/index_html/ni/atct_topic_view/?b_start:int=40&-C=

Hi Ruari-Santiago, thank you for the reading suggestions, very interesting. I had been looking at some articles from Northern Ireland but had not come accross these, yet. All the best, Claudia