De opkomst van Eigen Kracht conferenties in Nederland en Vlaanderen

Intro: De opkomst van Eigen Kracht-conferenties in Nederland en Vlaanderen Sinds 2001 vinden er in Nederland Eigen Kracht-conferenties (EK-c’s) plaats, en vanaf 2006 ook in Vlaanderen. Eind jaren negentig raakte een aantal vooruitstrevende professionals in de jeugdzorg geïnteresseerd in de kracht van familienetwerken als basis voor een nieuw jeugdzorgmodel: de Family Group Conference (FGC). Men verkoos een systeem van jeugdhulpverlening waarin de continuïteit van het gezinsleven voorop zou staan en de professional méér de aanjager van het herstel van het gezinsleven zou zijn dan de autoriteit die bevoegd is tot ingrijpen. Men wilde minder juridisering en protocollisering, zodat de inbreng van de cliënt en zijn familie weer meer centraal zou komen te staan. ..

A Case for Reverse Incorporation of Academic Legal Scholarship into Conflict Management Studies

The article takes as its point of departure some of the author’s multidisciplinary projects. Special attention is given to the question of whether the disciplines united in the vari- ous research team members already constituted a kind of ‘inter-discipline’, through which a single object was studied. The issue of how the disciplinary orientations of the research team members occasionally clashed, on methodological issues, is also addressed. The outcomes of these and similar multidisciplinary research projects are followed back into legal practice and academic legal scholarship to uncover whether an incorporation prob- lem indeed exists. Here, special attention will be given to policy recommendations and notably proposals for new leg- islation. After all, according to Van Dijck et al., the typical role model for legal researchers working from an internal perspective on the law is the legislator. The author concludes by making a somewhat bold case for reverse incorporation, that is, the need for (traditional) aca- demic legal research to become an integral part of a more encompassing (inter-)discipline, referred to here as ‘conflict management studies’. Key factors that will contribute to the rise of such a broad (inter-)discipline are the changes that currently permeate legal practice (the target audience of tra- ditional legal research) and the changes in the overall financing of academic research itself (with special reference to the Netherlands)