During the week (15-22 June) leading up to the forthcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM), the membership of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) will elect five Board members. New Board members, according to the adapted rules, will be elected for a 4 years term (see AGM 2018).
The AGM takes place in Sassari, Italy on 22 June 2022 evening (5-7 pm), followed by the 11th International Conference of the EFRJ (23-25 June). The voting takes places online and runs for a period of 8 days leading up to the AGM (15-22 June 2022).
Background
The term of the following Board members comes to an end in June, but in case of a first mandate, they can be re-elected for a second term:
- Annemieke Wolthuis, The Netherlands, Vice-chair (appointed in Leiden 2016, second mandate)
- Lars Otto Justad, Norway, Konfliktrådet (appointed in Leiden 2016, first mandate)
- Brunilda Pali, Belgium, KU Leuven Institute of Criminology (appointed in Leiden 2016, first mandate)
- Bart Claes, Belgium, Avans University NL (appointed in Leiden 2016, first mandate)
- Patrizia Patrizi, Italy, Sassari University (appointed in Berlin 2017, first mandate)
The voting procedure
Full members of the EFRJ are invited to help shaping the future of the organisation by voting on the board candidates. The voting will take place online between 15 - 22 June 2022. Full members will receive instructions for the online voting via email (from the email address: noreply@electionrunner.com) by 15 June 2022. If you haven't received the email invitation to vote by then, check your Spam box. In case you still do not find it, please contact our Communication Officer at: balint.juhasz@euforumrj.org
Every EFRJ full member has five votes, this means you may vote for five candidates. You may use 1-5 of your votes, i.e. you don't need cast all your votes if you don't wish to. You can vote for one, two, three or four candidates only, if you would like to do so. You can vote for maximum 5 candidates. The vote of organisational members count three times. Organisations do not need to take any additional action, the weight of their votes is automatically added by the online election system.
The voting will start one week before the Annual General Meeting (AGM, 5 pm 22 June 2022), and it will takes place online. This enables every full member to participate in the voting (even if you are unable to attend the AGM). You may also vote already before the AGM starts. The voting will close during the AGM.
You may only vote once. After you have voted the system will not allow you to change your vote or add a new vote. If you were not able to cast your ballot online, you will have the opportunity to vote on paper during the AGM exceptionally. However, please try to opt for the online version, and rely on the paper based option as a last resort only. We ask this because the paper-based voting will be very time-consuming as we will need to check each voters eligibility first, and verify that they haven't voted online yet.
Results will be announced shortly after the closure of the voting, during the meeting.
Voting period: 15 June 2022 (10 am CEST) - 22 June (5:30 pm CEST).
With your vote you will influence the future of the EFRJ!
