Save the date and plan your summer holidays 2020 in the beautiful island of Sardinia! Follow the event on social media with #efrj2020.
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK (#RJWeek) will take place all over Europe and beyond in the week between 17-24 November 2019.
Read moreThe EFRJ Summer School 2019 will be dedicated to reflecting on and practicing a more child-friendly RJ. Last seats available!
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe (CJPE) is launching the 3rd International Criminal Justice Summer Course in Barcelona entitled “Criminal Justice in a Polarised Society“.
Read moreThe EFRJ membership meets for the AGM in Deusto University, Bilbao, Basque Country, before the 2 day Symposium on the CoE Recommendation.
Read moreThe EFRJ membership will meet at the Annual General Meeting in Bilbao on 4 June, followed by a 2 day symposium on RJ.
Read moreAs requested by several EFRJ members, for the first time we organise a training in a language different than English! French-speaking interested people can join us in Brussels for this training on RJ in serious crime.
Read moreRegistrations are now open to attend the conference on RJ and child victims, organised by the IJJO in cooperation with the EFRJ: the draft programme is now online!
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK (#RJWeek) will take place all over Europe and beyond in the week between 18-25 November 2018.
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe organises its 2nd Summer Courses on Radicalisation & Violent Extremist Offenders. Each CJPE member will focus on a different aspect of this main theme, i.e. the characteristics of VEOs, alternatives to detention, and restorative approaches to radicalisation.
Read moreThe EFRJ is co-organising a seminar of the use of RJ in cases of traffic offences: registrater now (free of charge but limited places available).
Read moreThe next Annual General meeting of thr EFRJ membership will include important topics in the agenda, such as constitutional changes and board elections.
Read moreAn intensive pre-conference training Course will be offered to conference participants in Tirana! The topic will be RJ in serious crime, to give the chance to all those who could not join the EFRJ Summer School in Como to gain knowledge about the use of RJ in cases of homicide and sexual violence.
Read moreRegister now! The 10th international conference of the EFRJ will take place next year half June in Albania: check the programme online and join us in Tirana!
Read moreOn the occasion of the #RJWeek 2017, the EFRJ will launch a new film, 'A Conversation', subtitled in 14 languages thanks to our EFRJ members!
Read moreThe EFRJ invites experts within its membership to participate in a consultation meeting in Leuven: please apply before 12 November!
Read moreTogether with the International Juvenile Justice Observatory and KU Leuven, the EFRJ is co-organising a training on RJ practices involving child victims.
Read moreAnnemieke Wolthuis has just started an evaluation project of a family conferencing project in two closed juvenile justice institutions in Ukraine.
Read moreOur Board member Patrizia Patrizi represents the EFRJ in different events across Italy together with the colleague Gian Luigi Lepri, member of our Working Group on Values and Standards for RJ.
Read moreYou can meet our Finnish member of the Board, Aarne Kinnunen, during the ESC conference 2017!
Read moreBrunilda Pali will attend the conference organised by the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.
Read moreThe chair of the EFRJ Board, Tim Chapman (Northern Ireland), will be promoting RJ in different events across Europe all over the year!
Read moreSave the date! The International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK (#RJWeek) will take place all over Europe and beyond in the week between 19-26 November 2017.
Read moreThe summer courses organised by the Criminal Justice Platform Europe will take place in Barcelona on 4-7 July 2017: save the dates!
Read moreThe Asia-Pacific Forum for Restorative Justice will meet on 13 July in Cairns. Soon, we will announce the dates and venue of our joint seminar.
Read moreThe EFRJ will contribute to the workshop dedicated to further protect and support older persons who suffered abuse and violence, organised by the AGE Platform Europe.
Read moreA group of practitioners from the prison services in Germany will visit the EFRJ and KU LINC to learn more about RJ in Belgium.
Read moreSave the dates!! The EFRJ summer school will take place at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy) on 24-28 July 2017!
Read moreThe EFRJ is organising an expert seminar on RJ in intercultural conflicts, following the Annual General Meeting bringing together its membership on the evening of 1 June.
Read moreThe Annual General Meeting of the EFRJ will take place in Berlin, followed by an expert seminar, on 31 May-2 June 2017. Save the dates!
Read moreThe 2017 Annual Lecture of the 'Restorative Justice: An International Journal' (Canoas, Brazil on 2 June) is entitled 'Restorative justice and the criminal justice system: Challenges and possibilities for Brazil and Latin America'.
Read moreOur Board member Brunilda Pali will take part in the two-day initiative 'Utopia or dystopia? The role of justice in a 'pre-crime' future', presenting one of the films screened at KU Leuven.
Read moreTim Chapman and Emanuela Biffi (respectively, chair of the Board and Communications & Events Officer) will be in Dublin (Ireland) next May for three different events in the field of restorative practices and victim support.
Read moreThe vice-chair of the EFRJ Board, Annemieke Wolthuis, will contribute to the final conference of the MARGIN project in a panel discussion on 'Institutional perspectives on crime prevention and restorative justice'.
Read moreOur Board member Brunilda Pali will present on arts in criminology, mostly focusing on the arts-based project 'Art for social change: exploring justice through new media documentary', in which the EFRJ was a partner.
Read moreEmanuela Biffi will present RJ to about 120 students from an Italian high school, including a frontal lecture, short films and role plays.
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe is organising an experts seminar on the implementation of the Victims' Directive (Brussels 23 February 2017). The focus will be on training of professionals and cooperation of services (Art. 25 and 26).
Read moreOur Board member Bart Claes will represent the EFRJ at the seminar 'Alternatives to detention' organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA) on 23 February in Bucharest.
Read moreA RJ Day will be organised at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) on 10 February 2017. Among other speakers, you will find our new member of the EFRJ editorial committee.
Read moreTwo former chairs of the EFRJ Board, Prof. Ivo Aertsen and Michael Kilchling, will present during an international RJ conference in Italy.
Read moreOur Finnish Board member, Aarne Kinnunen, will represent the EFRJ In Berlin for the 'Day of victim assistance' organised by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.
Read moreThe EFRJ is co-organizing a conference on the implementation of RJ in the French system in Paris (18-19 January). The main organizer is the French Institute for Restorative Justice (IFJR).
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK will take place on 20-27 November 2016: find here some of the events taking place in Europe and beyond!
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK will take place on 20-27 November 2016. The EFRJ is organising a series of activities bringing together arts, justice and storytelling.
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK will take place on 20-27 November 2016. The EFRJ is organising a series of activities bringing together arts, justice and storytelling.
Read moreThe International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK will take place on 20-27 November 2016. The EFRJ is organising a series of activities bringing together arts, justice and storytelling.
Read moreSave the dates: the International RJ WEEK 2016 will take place between 20-27 November. Be prepared to celebrate it with us!
Read moreAlso this year, the EFRJ encourages your active participation in promoting RJ in the context of the RJ WEEK 2016! Please write us to promote your event or your story in the EFRJ website!
Read moreThe EFRJ encourages your active participation in promoting RJ in the context of the RJ WEEK 2016! Get inspired by these stories and... share your own story with us!
Read moreEdit Törzs, acting director of the EFRJ, will present at the European Custody and Detention Summit in London.
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe is organising the workshop Alternatives to Detention on 3 November 2016 in Barcelona (Spain).
Read moreTwo of our Board members, Tim Chapman (Northern Ireland) and Roberto Moreno (Basque country), will organise a training to present the EU model of restorative juvenile justice in Bilbao. A follow-up workshop will take place on 18 May 2017 in Oñati.
Read moreTim Chapman, our Board member from Northern Ireland (UK), will present on conflict resolution techniques through restorative practices to an audience of European policemen.
Read moreBrunilda Pali, one of the newly elected Board members of the EFRJ, will defend her doctoral thesis on Monday 17 October 2016 at KU Leuven.
Read moreAarne Kinnunen, our Finnish Board member, will be opening the seminar 'Mediation in Serious Crimes' in Tampere (Finland) on 19 October 2016.
Read moreMichael Kilchling, current chair of the EFRJ, will give a lecture on 'Restorative Justice as a Victim's Right' in Como, Italy.
Read moreRestorative Justice: An International Journal (RJIJ), the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the EFRJ and the Asia Pacific Forum for Restorative Justice present the 2016 RJIJ ANNUAL LECTURE (Milan, 12 October).
Read moreThe EFRJ is organising a training course under the Erasmus+ programme in Leuven (Belgium) for European youth workers between 22-30 years old.
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe is organising two events in the Fall 2016 (Barcelona and Brussels).
Read moreThe Confederation of European Probation (CEP) is organising the conference 'Working with young adult offenders' (age: 16-25 years old) in Norway on 31 August- 1 September 2016.
Read moreThe EFRJ and the Asia Pacific Forum for RJ will meet for an inter-regional seminar on the developments of RJ.
Read moreThe EFRJ is happy to invite you to the 9th edition of its biennial international conference ‘Realising Restorative Justice: Human Rights and Personal Realities’ (Leiden, 22-24 June 2016).
Read moreThe EFRJ Annual General meeting 2016 will take place on 21 June in Leiden (The Netherlands) at 18-20 hr.
Read moreThe next conference of the Criminal Justice Platform Europe will take place in Barcelona on 26 April 2016. The theme will be: 'Radicalisation and Violent Extremism'.
Read moreThe final seminar of the project 'Restorative Justice in Cases of Domestic Violence' will be in Brussels on 26 January 2016! Check the programme here.
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform Europe is organising an international seminar on the implementation of three Framework Decisions (Brussels, 3 December 2015).
Read moreIf you cannot attend the events taking place in Leuven during the RJ WEEK 2015, we would like to encourage you to organise your own local event and share it with us!
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The International RJ Week will take place between 15-22 November 2015. This year the EFRJ will celebrate it with a series of events in Leuven (Belgium) on Wednesday 18 November!
Read moreThe Criminal Justice Platform is organising the 'Jihadist Radicalization Event' in Barcelona on 14 October 2015.
Read moreThe CEP Conference on the use of RJ during probation will take place on 23-25 September 2015 in Prague (Czech Republic).
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The final conference of the ALTERNATIVE project will take place on 16-18 November 2015 in Leuven (Belgium).
Read moreRegistration is now open for the Summer School on the victims' directive - challenges and opportunities for restorative justice (Lisbon, 13-17 July 2015).
Read moreThe annual lecture of the RJIJ will take place at the Asian Criminological Society conference in Hong Kong on 25 June 2015.
Read moreA reception on Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence will take place in London on 1 June.
Read moreThe EFRJ AGM 2015 will take place next week in Warsaw (Poland) followed by a seminar on RJ and domestic violence.
Read moreThis seminar will follow the EFRJ Annual General Meeting taking place in Warsaw in May 2015.
Read moreThe victims' directive - challenges and opportunities for restorative justice. 13-17 july 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read moreThe AGM of the EFRJ will take place in Warsaw (Poland) on 21 May 2015. Read our chair Michael Kilchling's invitation to attend the AGM 2015.
Read moreIn the framework of the ALTERNATIVE project, the Norwegian project partner NOVA organises a 1.5 days regional workshop on 11 and 12 February 2015...
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The RJ Week 2014 will start on 16 November! For this occasion a short film "Restorative justice. Inspiring the future of a just society for all" has been produced by the EFRJ and the Foresee Research Group.
Read moreWe are happy to announce the final conference of the KU Leuven coordinated Daphne Project ‘Developing integrated responses to sexual violence: an interdisciplinary research project on the potential of restorative justice’ (JUST/2011/DAP/3350), which will take place from 12 to 14 November 2014 at the University of Leuven (Belgium). You can find more information here.
Read moreThe CJP will organize an international seminar with experts and policy makers in Brussels, on September 18, 2014, on the latest evidence for effectively work with victims and offenders.
Read moreUntil new events are coming up, check the video made during the 8th International Conference of the EFRJ in Belfast in June 2014.
Read moreThe EFRJ is happy to invite you to this fringe meeting chaired by Belinda Hopkins during the 8th international conference of the EFRJ in Belfast!
Read moreThe EFRJ is happy to announce its 6 candidates: 3 of them will be elected during the Annual General Meeting in Belfast on June 11, at 5pm.
Read more`Restorative justice in intercultural settings: business as usual?` 29 July - 02 August 2013, Vienna More than 30 practitioners, researchers and trainers from 13 different countries came together in Vienna for a week to share their experiences and learn from each other on the application/possibilities of restorative justice approaches in intercultural conflict settings. This year the Summer School was organised in the framework of the ALTERNATIVE project. Besides training on intercultural aspects in RJ practice, summer school participants had the possibility to visit organisations in Vienna using restorative justice and/or working in intercultural settings. One day was dedicated to a more in depth learning experience on the ALTERNATIVE project itself, having colleagues from Northern Ireland (UU) and Hungary (Foresee) giving full day workshops based on their research and activities in the project. The reserach in the project is also enriched with the experiences, remarks, questions, debates, feedback of all participants. According to participants' feedback it served as a mutual learning experience, as well as a possibility to build professional networks and personal contacts. The Africa festival, the warm and sunny weather, the evening walks, drinks and a summer school dinner hopefully served this purpose well. Pictures from the summer school
Read moreThe 7th International Conference of the European Forum took place from 14 until 16 June 2012 in Helsinki, Finland and was entitled ‘Connecting People. Victims, Offenders and Community in Restorative Justice’.
Read moreThese annual meetings address topics such as policy, the election and dismissal of Board members, the approval of annual accounts, the budget, the annual report, internal regulations and membership matters.
Read moreThe 2010 Conference "Doing Restorative Justice in Europe - Established Practices and Innovative Programmes"
Read more'Building restorative justice in Europe. Cooperation between the public, policy makers, practitioners and researchers' was the title of the fifth conference of the European Forum, which was held in Verona in April 2008.
Read moreEveryone wants 'justice', but people mean different things by it, as mediators and other restorative justice practitioners experience in their daily work.
Read moreOn 14-16 October 2004, the Forum organised its third biennial conference, "Restorative justice in Europe: Where are we heading?" in Budapest, Hungary.
Read moreOn 10-12 October 2002, the Forum organised its second biennial conference, "Restorative justice and its relation to the criminal justice system", in Oostende, at the Belgian coast.
Read moreThe Forum's first conference, Victim-Offender Mediation in Europe. Making Restorative Justice Work, was organised in Leuven on 27 till 29 October 1999. The conference dealt with information and issues specifically on victim-offender mediation, but placed it in a larger theoretical and policy-oriented context of restorative justice. It brought together about 140 people from 24 different European countries.
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