On 26-29 November 2013 “Civil Society Institute” NGO
in cooperation with the Police of the Republic of Armenia and with the financial
support of the Penal Reform International (PRI) organized a series of seminars on
“Mediation as modern tool of the legal culture” at “Artour’s Resort” in
Aghveran. 60 police
officers representing the Department on the Protection of the Rights of a Child
and Combating Domestic Violence of the Chief Department of Criminal Investigation
of the Police of Armenia and their respective local units attended the seminars.

The seminar
was facilitated by Tatyana Khudyakova, an international trainer on mediation
from Ukraine. She presented the principles and rules of mediation, ways of
resolving conflicts as well as the concept of restorative justice and its
principles. Special emphasis was made on peculiarities of mediation in family
and criminal issues.

21 out
of 30 participants also participated in training on “Basic skills of mediation”
organized from November 30 to December 2, 2013.