Gyeongnam Office of Education, Creating a School Culture Safe from Sexual Violence

Signing of Business Agreement between KOSA Korea Busan Gyeongnam Branch and Partner

Superintendent Park Jong-hoon of Gyeongnam Office of Education (left in the photo) and Gu Su-gyeong, President of KOSA Korea Busan-Gyeongnam Branch, are signing an agreement. (Photo by Gyeongnam Office of Education)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kang Sharon] The Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education signed a business agreement on the 22nd with the Busan-Gyeongnam branch of CoSA Korea (hereinafter CoSA) to create a "school culture safe from sexual violence."

This agreement is the first among education offices nationwide to link CoSA with students to establish a system that ensures students' safety from recidivism by sexual offenders.

CoSA (Circles of Support and Accountability), a professional volunteer organization working to prevent recidivism of sexual crimes in the community based on restorative justice, the philosophical background of restorative life education, is an acronym for "Circles of Support and Accountability."

CoSA was established in Canada in 1994 to help released sexual offenders live as healthy citizens, and CoSA Korea was founded in 2014.

Both organizations will cooperate on ▲utilizing human and material resources and sharing information ▲linking the monitoring of sexual offenders with Circles of Support and Accountability activities ▲reviewing training, educational materials, and program development related to restorative circles ▲and matters concerning common interests and fostering goodwill.

Restorative circles are one of the methods of practicing restorative justice and are the most taught and utilized activity method of CoSA Korea in restorative life education.

Park Se-gwon, Director of Democratic Citizenship Education, said, "This agreement links the systematic post-management of sexual offenders against children and adolescents to CoSA to prevent recidivism. It is expected to alleviate the educational community's anxiety about sexual offenders outside of schools and contribute to creating a school culture safe from sexual violence."

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