A national teleconference on restorative justice sponsored by the National Institutes of Correction was held in the United States of America in 1996 and a seminar on mediation and other means for alternative settling of disputes was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in December 2000.
2000年12月，在保加利亚普罗夫迪夫举行了有关调解和解决争端的其他替代手段的讨论会。