VICTIM SUPPORT EUROPE

22nd Conference & Annual General Meeting

“Taking the Victim Agenda Forward”

Place: Hotel M, Belgrade, Serbia

Time: Wednesday 28th May – Sunday 1st June 2008

Wednesday May 28th 2008

12.00 - 17.00 Arrival of delegates and registration

17.30 Departure to the venue fortheofficial opening ceremony

18:00 - 19.00 The official opening ceremonyin City Hall

Jaap Smit, Victim Support Europe

Anthony Pahigian, Deputy Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia

Rodoljub Šabić,The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance

Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Victimology Society of Serbia

Music program

19.00 -20.00 Cocktail in City Hall

20.00 Departure to the hotel

Thursday May 29th 2008

9.15 - 9.30 Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic Welcome and Presentation of HostOrganisation

9.30 – 11.00 Plenary:From research to practice

Introduction: Jaap Smit

Chair:Marianne Gammer

JanvanDijk Overview of Research on Victims

Hans-Georg Voss Stalking and Domestic Violence - Development Patterns and Risks

Discussion

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30 Representative from the EU The Victim in Europe: An EU Prospective

Discussion

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.15 Choice of one workshop from the following:

Domestic Violence,Carla Amaral, Portugal

Assessing Victims Needs, Susan Gallagher, Scotland

Children and Young People - the Links between Violent Victimisation and Offending, Judith Edwards, England and Wales

Stalking, Hans-Georg Voss, Germany

Victim Satisfaction, Bas Tierolff,Netherlands

15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 - 17.15 Plenary: Development of Victim Support Europe

Chair: David McKenna

Helgard van Hüllen

Joao Lazaro

Discussion

19.00 Dinner in the Hotel M

FridayMay30th2008

9.30 - 12.30 Plenary: Putting the Victim’s Agenda on the EU’s Agenda

Jaap Smit

Frida Peterson

Discussion

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

12.30- 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.15 Choice of one workshop from the following:

Supporting Victims of Trafficking, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Serbia

Supporting Victims of Terrorism,Ivo Aertsen, Belgium

Cross Border Compensation, José Albino Caetano Duarte, Portugal

Help Lines, Marianne Gammer, Austria

Fundraising,Carsten Kasprzok,Germany

Generic/SpecialistOrganisations,Koen Devroey, Belgium

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break

15. 45 - 17.15 Plenary:RestorativeJusticeand Victim Support

Chair: Joao Lazaro

Christa Pelikan

Marc Groenhuijsen

Discussion

17.15Closing remarks

19.30.Departure for dinner at the Restaurant ADAon the Danube river

20.00-23.00 Dinner

23.00 Return to the Hotel M

Saturday May 31st 2008

9.00 -13.00 AGM meeting

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

13.00Lunch

15.30Departure of bus to city tour

15.30-18.00 City tour with guide

20. 00 Farewell dinner on the terrace of the Hotel M

Sunday June 1st, 2008

Delegates leave

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