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Ammon News - The Jordanian Judicial Council on Thursday opened its first international conference of the Jordanian public prosecution, dubbed "Restorative justice in modern criminal policy," at the King Hussein Convention Center in the Dead Sea.

The 3-day conference, organized in cooperation with the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS), brings together more than 200 public prosecutors from Jordan and other Arab countries, foreign and Arab restorative justice experts, and global organization representatives.

The conference aims to back the transition from traditional criminal justice to contemporary criminal justice, which is restorative justice based on reconciliation between criminal dispute parties.

It includes several discussions covering challenges facing restorative justice topics, as well as international expertise exchange by consultants from various participating Arab and European countries.

Judicial Council President Mohammad Ghazou, who opened the conference on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah II, expressed hope that the outcomes of the conference and its research papers can "help develop future criminal policies in our countries."

The Public Prosecution Office chose restorative justice as its main topic to keep pace with modern criminal policies, said Chief Attorney General Yousef Thiabat.

NAUSS President Abdelmajeed Albanyan said the conference is the fruit of a memorandum of understanding signed with the Jordanian public prosecution to exchange expertise in the "important subject of restorative justice." Experts partaking in the conference "will undoubtedly come up with significant recommendations in this field," he added.