-37 followed,71 and it has also been used in a police context.72 In Liebling’s research on the quality of life in prisons,73 AI interviews were used to identify “what matters” to staff as well as to prisoners, explore the positive resources, experiences and imaginations of staff and prisoners and the possible effect these positive experiences can have on the quality of life in prisons. Furthermore, they enable a “healthy process of selfreflection” among staff and prisoners with a view to transforming situations, processes and organizational structures. Examples of AI questions used are: • In here, what gives you life and energy? • Reflecting on other prisons you know, where/when do you think relations between staff and prisoners have been at their best? • If you were in charge of training prison staff, what would you most emphasize about how they should relate to inmates? • What is the best that happened to you during your time in this prison? • What is the ideal for staff prisoner relationships? Liebling and her team conclude “that the method of appreciative inquiry has a distinct power and relevance in prison setting. There is something distinctly energizing about the exploration of the best expectations of people and organizations.”74 Members of NPMs participating in a series of online meetings within the framework of the current project in May and June 2020, where Liebling presented her research and this method, expressed great interest in using it in their work, but also highlighted the need to, firstly, adapt it to the characteristics of NPM work, in particular its time restraints, and, secondly, to have specific training on how to concretely use it in their practice. 71. Andrew Jefferson and Liv Gaborit, Human Rights in Prisons. Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and the Philippines (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). 72. Walter Suntinger and Moritz Birk, ‘Appreciative Inquiry: Mobilising Potentials within Police Organizations to Realize Human Rights’, in: Ralf Alleweldt (ed.), Fair Treatment of Persons in Police Custody (Springer Verlag 2021) [hereinafter: Suntinger/Birk]. 73. See more in Prisons Research Center (University of Cambridge), ‘MQPL+: Analyses of Quality, Culture, and Values in Individual Prisons’ (11 February 2016) <https://www.prc.crim.cam.ac.uk/directory/ research-themes/mqpl> [hereinafter: Prison Research Center]. 74. Liebling/Price/Elliot, 93. Systemic Thinking in Preventive Human Rights Monitoring