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Restorative Justice Week 2023

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Restorative Justice Week 2023 - Repair and reform: restoring dialogue, solidarity & justice in today's societies

The Restorative Justice Week 2023 took place between 19 - 25 November 2023. 

The theme highlighted the relevance of restorative justice when it comes to facing the great challenges of our times. It presented restorative justice as a versatile instrument at our availability that can contribute to ease or resolve conflicts weighing on us. Conflicts that we struggle with, that we find difficult imagining how to tackle. It offers unrecognised ways to approach deeply trenched matters, new clues for starting a dialogue, making connections, building solidarity, restoring justice.  It fuels our quest for better ways for living together.

 

What to do?

  • Join the online campaign, by sharing information (on restorative justice, on the significance of granting equal access to restorative justice, and on current #RJWeek events), and messages! Use the hashtags: #RJWeek #ReleasingThePotentialOfRestorativeJustice #AcccessToRestorativeJustice
  • Organise your local event or campaign - and inform us, so we can spread the word!
  • As every year, the EFRJ will gather and give visibility to all contributions to the week. Find out how you can contribute this year!
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EFRJ Contributions to the RJWeek 2023

EFRJ contributions for the Restorative Justice Week 2023!

The EFRJ has chose to focus this year's Restorative Justice Week on the use of restorative justice facing the challenges of our time, and used the slogan: "Repair and reform: restoring dialogue, solidarity & justice in today's societies"

Like the past years, we have offered to anyone interested in communicating the opportunity to share the significance of restorative justice around these special dates.

It is also an EFRJ tradition to collect and disseminate Restorative Justice Week events happening in Europe and beyond around that week using our social media, newsflash and very practical tools like the calendar you can find below. Check it out and add all initiatives you would like to attend on your calendar in one click.

 

Also, the EFRJ community put together some materials and initiatives during this special week:

  • Read the Access to Restorative Justice brief to get a good summary of the key issues linked to the topic.
  • Check the visuals for the campaign that our members translated in their native languages!
  • get inspired by the Screening of "All your faces" / "Je verrai toujours vos visages" in Leuven (Belgium) on 24 November in Cinema Zed here.
  • Learn more about the online event on confidentiality in restorative justice. It was the second in a series dedicated to exploring the core restorative values and principles that guide our practice.
  • Check below our shared map about the happenings, events and campaigns that took place in 2023!