Why does restorative justice matter?

For the 2019 restorative justice week, the European Forum for Restorative Justice launched 6 short videos (one for each day of the restorative justice week) with interviews of some of our board members responding to the question "Why restorative justice matters?"

Poster summer school 2019 child friendly RJ

European Forum for Restorative Justice Summer School Child Friendly Restorative Justice 2019

Every two years, the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) organises a Summer School in a different location in Europe and on a different theme.
The EFRJ Summer School aims at bringing together practitioners, researchers, trainers and other professionals interested in RJ from across Europe and beyond to exchange and discuss practices, ideas, challenges, projects in the field of RJ.

This time, focus was on both, young victims and offenders, to identify appropriate restorative responses to conflict and crime involving this specific vulnerable group.

Watch the video

 

Bilbao 2019 poster

International European Forum for Restorative Justice Symposium

Deusto University in Bilbao, 5-6 June 2019

RJ week banner 2018

RJ week 2018

poster tirana 2018

10th international European Forum for Restorative Justice Conference (Tirana 2018)

Expanding the restorative imagination restorative justice between realities and visions in Europe and beyond

A conversation film screen shot

A Conversation

RJ week 2017

A CONVERSATION is a film based on a theatre performance of a real case where two families meet in the presence of a facilitator, the parents of a young woman who was raped and murdered and the family of the offender.

The play is an important contribution to the ongoing discourse on restorative justice and it aims at raising awareness on the possibility to use dialogue and focus on the feelings of people in conflict, even in cases of serious crimes.

The film has been screened almost 150 times since its release, reaching about 7000 people!

Watch the trailer
The full film is available to European Forum for Restorative Justice members only.

Message by John McDonald (Australia)

 

 

Belfast 2014

8th international conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (Belfast 2014)

Pathways to desistance social justice and peacebuilding

This conference aimed to broaden the scope of restorative justice, and tried to look "beyond" its application to the criminal justice system. Organisers, speakers from academia, policy and practice and other key persons in restorative justice reflect on this new perspective in short interviews.
Watch the short film.
And the "Restorative justice. Inspiring the future of a just society for all" film