#RJWeek / EFRJ Special Edition Newsflash November II

Newsflash November 2020 / II / Special edition View this email in your browser The #RJWeek begins Today! Today marks the beginning of the International Restorative Justice Week! The #RJWeek takes place every year all over Europe and beyond and the EFRJ always joins this campaign since 2000. This is the week when communities, victims, offenders receive public attention and it is a devoted celebration of restorative justice, its benefits for the society, and the bringing together of communities globally and locally to address injustices and harm in a humane way. This year's programme invites all those interested to participate in over 20 local events organised by our members across Europe and beyond! Events are taking place in a number of countries and many of them are online. In this special issue of the Newsflash we are introducing a selection of the local events that are part of the #RJWeek. You will find the most up-to-date collection of events on the map, on the front page of our website! Today! Remember. Support. Act. Today is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, 15/11/2020. It is dedicated to remember to the many millions of people who have been killed or injured on the world's roads as well as their families, friends and all who are affected. This initiative aims to provide a platform for road traffic victims and their families to: remember all people killed or seriously injured on the roads; to acknowledge the crucial work of the emergency services; to draw attention to the generally trivial legal response to culpable road deaths and injuries; to advocate for better support for road traffic victims and victim families; to promote evidence-based actions to prevent and eventually stop further road traffic deaths and injuries. The impact of a car crash widens to families, friends, colleagues, classmates, neighbourhoods, communities and society as a whole. In the previous years the EFRJ collaborated in an EU-funded project that focused on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime including road traffic offences. You can find out more about it here. #RJWeek: EFRJ Projects in Action In Belgium the national prison week and our international RJWeek are celebrated with a good collaboration between the EFRJ and local organisers working in prison settings. We prepared our programme Projects in action available in English. Don't forget to schedule our campaigns for the week: 1.) Chose a day when to launch the 4 pre-recorded videos of the KINTSUGI project; 2.) On 20/11 is the International Day of the Rights of the Child, and we will report on the iRESTORE project. Follow our website and social media for more information. #RJWeek: in the UK Do you work with victims of domestic abuse? Would you like to know more on restorative justice as a method to repair the harm that has been caused? The 2-hour long webinar on The Use of Restorative Justice in Domestic Abuse Cases (20/11/2020) organised by the Essex Restorative and Mediation Service (UK) is taking place online in English. Participants will hear from a survivor who will be sharing her story about a violent attack against her by her ex-partner. She will also talk about her experience of the Criminal Justice System and how the RJ process changed her life. Please don't forget to register via email. An other event is organised in the UK that takes the form of video releasing by Restorative Gloucestershire. If you are curious to learn more about RJ through case studies and interviews with practitioners, here is your chance to do that. You can also find them on Twitter: @RJGlos. The 2nd annual conference of the Restorative Justice Council entitled "Reform: Restore" will take place online between 16 and 17 November 2020. The event is focusing on restorative justice principles and practices that can play a significant role in making systems much more person-centred and a means of building resilient and stronger communities and families. More details on the event here. #RJWeek: in Poland Is there any space for restorative justice in Poland? opens the notion of the hour long Polish online debate programme (11/19/2020). The event brings together well-known scholars and practitioners advocating and supporting restorative justice in Poland. The event is organised as part of the activities related to the project: Restorative Justice - Strategies for Change. Individual contributions from the guest speakers will be followed by a Q&A session with the participants. Among the guest speakers are Professor Wojciech Zalewski, Katarzyna Stryjek, Joanna Pomagruk, Janusz Kaźmierczak. #RJWeek: in Italy This year there are 5 events (16, 18-20/11/2020) organised by our Italian members, covering topics ranging from restorative justice and mediation for criminal cases specially dedicated for students; there will be a lecture taking place with the title: Silent Voices; finally, an online a lecture on environmental restorative approach will be held by Daniel Zovi. Lecco's RJ Working Group's project with Restorative Cities in Italy will be introduced through an online discussion in Italian, with the participation of Patrizia Patrizi (board member of EFRJ), Gianluigi Lepri (chair of RCities working group) and Ivo Lizzola from Bergamo University. They will cover European and Italian experiences of building Restorative Cities, in dialogue with experiences of restorative community realised in Lecco in recent years. Our member organisation, Onlus is organising the "Ricucire le città" ("Mend the cities") online conversation (19/11/2020 at 18:30 CET) on the right of repairing wounds caused by crime. The discussion will explore the victim's, the offender's and the community's perspectives. Register: dreamwalker333@yahoo.it #RJWeek: in Germany On the occasion of this year's International Restorative Justice Week (#RJWEEK) the Service Bureau for Victim-Offender Mediation and Conflict-Settlement by DBH e. V. in Germany is organising an interdisciplinary expert day about „Healing instead of Punishing“. The event is primarily addressed to judges, public prosecutors, prison officers, police officers, mediators, social workers, psychologists, lawyers and all other persons interested in this topic. The programme takes place in German on 20/11/2020 with a panel at 7pm CET in English. More information and registration here. #RJWeek: Catalonia The Justice Department Of Catalonia is organising a webinar in Catalan, dedicated to explore the role that restorative justice may play in hate and discrimination crimes. The event is offering an insight into an experience from an International project on restorative justice applied to hate crimes committed against members of the LGBTI community and the debate around two local practical cases. The target group for the webinar are restorative justice practitioners, university students, staff members from prison, probation and juvenile justice services and judges, prosecutors and lawyers. Don't forget to register! #RJWeek: Brazil The online event Restorative Justice on the Edge, organised by the Brazilian CRJ will be available (18/11/2020) in Portuguese via their YouTube channel, or through this direct link. In this live session, Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt (UNICAP and IIRP) and Leonardo Sica (GVSP) will discuss the current status of restorative justice in Brazil and what can be expected expect for the future. #RJWeek: Estonia Whose justice is restorative justice? asks the title of the Estonian conference organised as part of the RJWeek. Panel discussions, webinars and seminars are taking place (16, 18/11) in the country this week covering a comprehensive set of restorative justice issues and brings legendary figures as hosts: Marie Keenan, Andra Sild, Anna Frank-Viron, Ada Alliksoo, Belinda Hopkins, Laidi Surva, Annegrete Johanson, Anke Siegers, Áine Morris, Bart Claes. Just to give a taste of the richness of these events, here is a short list of areas that will be covered: procedures and the possibilities of implementing conflict mediation; restorative justice in intimate partner violence cases; probation in Estonia; the use of RJ in probation; RJ in sexual violence and abuse cases. To find out more about the programs please klick or check out the program schedule. #RJWeek: Finland During the RJ Week, the joint RÖNSY webinar (19/11) offers introduction into the field of early childhood, education and teaching. The other Finish initiative is the VERSO program (26/11), that maintains a restorative approach and mediation activities in schools, educational institutions and early childhood education units throughout Finland. The aim of the seminar is to provide up-to-date research information and workshops for the actors in the field of education to support the implementation of restorative approach and regional co-operation networks. #RJWeek: Canada The Canadian Restorative Justice Consortium and other Canadian restorative justice organisations are holding the National Restorative Justice Symposium 2020 during the Restorative Justice Week (15-22/11/2020). Several of our members, including our Board member Brunilda Pali will deliver workshops and keynotes. The symposium is happening this year online, a good opportunity to join from every point of the Earth. Participate from 'your back yards' as the organisers say. https://www.crjc.ca/national-symposium #RJWeek: Northern Ireland The Northern Irish Restorative Practices Forum prepared a virtual event (17/11) to Explore The Development Of Restorative Practices In Schools. You are invited to participate in the online webinar with guest speakers, including Professor Jim Longo an Margaret Thorsborne. Don't miss the registration, it is required for participation. #RJWeek: South Africa The African Forum for Restorative Justice is launching an online discussion on the Afro-Centric Perspective of Restorative Justice. The event is taking place in English, on zoom on 15/11 and is hosted by Prof. Don John Omale and Dr. Denis Tanfa. Don't forget to register! #RJWeek: Chile The Restorative Justice Programme of the Catholic University of Chile, School of Social Work celebrates the RJWeek with an online seminar with renowned restorative experts of restorative justice from Latin America and Spain (19/11/2020). Register here. #RJWeek: Czech Republic The Institute for Restorative Justice in Czechia organises an online campaign on their Facebook page to share news and information on restorative justice translated recently to Czech. The focus of the week is on the idea of restorative cities, with materials and on online questionnaire on the topic. #RJWeek: Let us know about your event! In case you are aware of or you organise events for the restorative justice week, let us know about it through filling in this form, so it can be advertised by the EFRJ. Put your event on our RJWeek map! Additionally, feel free to download and use the banner we created for the #RJWeek 2020.