On 28 March 2014 almost 50 practitioners, policymakers, researchers and desisters were welcomed by our partners Shadd Maruna, Brendan Marsh and Kelvin Doherty at Queen’s University in Belfast. In a one day workshop they commented and discussed the preliminary results of the Desistance and RJ project, which is coordinated by the EFRJ. The outcomes of the discussion will be used to finetune/inform the second part of the research.