Get ready for the 2026 international Restorative Justice Week campaign!
15th-21st November, 2026
"Have your say! Want to shape this year's campaign? Complete the survey below by June 7th, 2026 at the latest! Tell us what you think! What should the campaign's theme be? What should be the core messages?"
Based on your input we will select the most popular/most significant theme for the year!
It all started in 1975 in England, where prison chaplains launched a day to remember incarcerated people, the ‘Prisoner’s Sunday’. The idea was then spread in other countries and 20 years later it become the ‘Prisoner’s Week’.
Finally, in 1996 Canada expanded the prisoner’s week into the ‘Restorative Justice Week: Community, Victims, and Prisoners’, later shortened to ‘Restorative Justice Week’.
Nowadays, the International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK (#RJWeek) takes place every year all over Europe and beyond. The European Forum for Restorative Justice joins the annual international campaign since 2000 with initiatives organised by the Secretariat and by sharing information on events launched by our members!
The ‘Prisoner’s Week’ is still celebrated and in Belgium the national prison week and our international Restorative Justice Week are celebrated with a good collaboration between the EFRJ and local organisers working in prison settings: for example, in 2017 their theme is about family members of prisoners, something where restorative justice can have a proper say.
Help us collect and map events organised to celebrate the Restorative Justice Week in 2025.
We invite everyone to organise their local events, and help us make the extended network of restorative events visible by sharing information on what is happening at different locations around globally.
If you are organiser of a local event (or several), please provide us information via the form below. (Click on the title to open it!) We will start to communicate about the submissions from early October 2025 on. Closer to the RJWeek a map and calendar will give an overview of what is happening around the world to mark the #RJWeek!
European Forum for Restorative Justice vzw
Herbert Hooverplein 10, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
+32 466209112 / info@euforumrj.org
Company number: 0474 656 137
Register of legal entities (Rechtspersonenregister): RPR Leuven
This page has been created with the financial support of the Justice Programme of the European Union
