Restorative Justice for All International Institute

Who we are

Restorative Justice for All  (RJ4All) is a charitable, user-led international institute with a mission to address poverty and advance community cohesion and human rights. We are one of the world’s leading experts in transferring complex criminological and social justice concepts into practice through real-life pilots and community projects.

At RJ4All, we view and deal with harm in a holistic manner and through positive, user-led methods. Our projects and campaign work are drawn from the belief that the most persistent driver of inequality is power abuse and that the bio-power that exists to prevent and control it is found in restorative justice communities.

RJ4All has three additional arms: RJ4All Publications (publishing arm), RJ4All Sports (fitness arm) and RJ4All ecourses (training arm).

RJ4All is also the manager of the RJ4All Rotherhithe Community Centre, which has become a hub of community empowerment and cohesion aiming to develop the first restorative postcode in the world. It offers a food-bank, a community fridge, free sport classes, a community library, the COVID19 programme and educational workshops to children, young people and professionals. It is also a safe place for anyone who wants to pop in for a coffee, use our facilities or just chat with our interns, volunteers and team.

We achieve our charitable aims by:

• Carrying out educational projects and information campaigns in the interest of children and young people, communities, victims and marginalised groups.
• Providing certified and accredited e-courses and training programmes to professionals and young people.
• Providing internships and high quality volunteering opportunities to young people, marginalised groups and those at risk of being affected by crime.
• Providing sports, art and cultural workshops to children, young people and their families
• Bringing harmed parties together through restorative justice to negotiate solutions and restore the harm that they experienced.
• Increasing public awareness of restorative justice, human rights and inter-cultural dialogue.
• Carrying out evaluations and research on restorative justice, social justice and equality programmes.
• Building bridges between communities and the powerful. 
• Acting as a learning network between practitioners, researchers, policy makers and users of the justice system
• Increasing knowledge and pushing the boundaries of restorative justice especially in contested areas of practice.
• Making restorative justice more accessible to young people, junior researchers, students, practitioners, policy makers, the public and the media.
• Influencing international, regional and local policy, legislation and practice.
• Providing expert, tailored and independent advice on social justice matters. 

Our culture and values

RJ4All has a vision of a world that embraces the restorative justice values of power sharing, fairness, equality, dignity and respect, and where power abuse is rooted out. We pursue our vision by using the power of dialogue, education, sports and art, as well as the practices of restorative justice .

RJ4All has a mission to address poverty and advance equality, community cohesion and human rights. We pursue our mission by delivering social justice and poverty relief projects, free skills-development and educational programmes, youth clubs, intercultural and awareness raising workshops, internships and high quality volunteering opportunities.