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Restorative Justice Week

The 2024 Restorative Justice Week will take place between 17-23 November! Get ready for this special week! 

Every year, on the 3rd week of November, it is Restorative Justice Week! (#RJWeek) During this international campaign individual pioneers and well-established organisations working in the field of restorative justice organise a series of events to raise awareness about restorative justice. Each year the EFRJ proposes a specific theme for the week and encourages everyone to take part in the celebrations and awareness raising actions. 
Are you already busy with organising something? Get in touch if you need support to promote your idea! 

The 2024 theme

The following theme is proposed for the 2024 international Restorative Justice Week:

“The promise of restorative justice in a polarising world”

This year the Restorative Justice Week will take place between 17-23 November! 

More details about the theme and campaign materials will be shared later. 

Do you already have plans or ideas for the week? Looking for inspiration? Interested in joining forces for the campaign? Join our  international sharing & planning meeting on 4th of September 2024 at 3 pm CEST. 

 

Restorative Justice Week events around the world

We keep updating this map (and a calendar as well coming soon!) with events organised to mark the Restorative Justice Week 2024. If you organise an event and don't see it here yet, use the form at the bottom of the page to submit the details to us! 

For the 2024 Restorative Justice Week, Luc Rombouts, the official carillonneur of Leuven, will be performing a special Carillon concert. 
» Propose your favourite 'restorative' song/musical piece for Luc to include in the musical programme!
» 20th of November 2024 at 1 pm CET in the centre of Leuven (Belgium) in Ladeuzeplein. 
» Live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook (on our website too). 

The "Restorative Justice in Local Communities Around the World" series is a special initiative by the International Institute for Restorative Practices in partnership with the European Forum for Restorative Justice EFRJ, featured on the "Restorative Works!" podcast. This five-episode series marking the 2024 Restorative Justice Week showcases the diverse and impactful applications of restorative justice in local communities across the globe.

Read the report of our coordination meeting

On June 27th 2024 the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) offered a platform for restorative justice organisations worldwide to discuss collaboration and coordination possibilities for the Restorative Justice Week celebrations/campaign in 2024. The meeting was attended by 34 participants from all over the world representing network and other influential organisations working with restorative justice and restorative practices. You can now read the report of the meeting, including a proposal for the 2024 Restorative Justice Week campaign and the details for the follow-up Restorative Justice Week preparatory meeting on 4th of September 2024.

Report: RJWeek24 Coordination meeting 27the June 2024

A Little History

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 2024.

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!)  

Please provide here information about any event organised to celebrate the international Restorative Justice Week! If you organise several events, please fill in the form for each separately. Thank you! 
Please provide the country which is organising the event. 
Please give the venue where the event will be organised. Please be as specific as possible as we will display the RJWeek events on a map. Please indicate here if it wil be an online event.
Please give the main language of the event. 
Please provide a short text that we can use to promote your event or diesseminate information about it. Please include the target audience of the event. 
If you would like to enable inquires about the event, please provide an email address where you can be contacted.