Restorative Justice Week

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. 

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.