Justice Conference 2026
Theme: Practitioners of Peace 🕊️
Sub-theme: Healing the Causes of Deterioration in Human Affairs
Dates: Friday 3 April – Monday 6 April 2026
Location: De Poort Conference Centre, Groesbeek, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
For over three decades, the Justice Conference has explored justice from many interrelated angles — inner coherence, healing and reconciliation, trust and consultation, systemic change, and community building.
In 2026, the conference turns to a vital next step: how individuals, communities, and institutions become active practitioners of peace, capable of healing what is breaking down in human affairs and giving rise to enduring structures of justice.
Peace, in this context, is not merely an aspiration. It is a practice — a daily discipline of courage, compassion, unity, and justice, expressed in personal conduct, community life, and institutional action.
Justice Conference 2026 invites participants to reflect, learn, and engage together around the theme Practitioners of Peace, with a particular focus on the sub-theme Healing the Causes of Deterioration in Human Affairs.
The programme will include a mix of plenary and keynote talks, workshops, panels, artistic contributions, and spaces for consultation and collective reflection. The conference brings together practitioners, scholars, artists, community builders, and those engaged in social transformation across diverse fields and contexts.
Call for Proposals
We warmly invite proposals for workshops, panels, artistic contributions, and other participatory formats that explore what it means to practice peace in concrete, grounded, and responsible ways.
Contributions may address, among others:
• healing and reconciliation
• justice and social cohesion
• community building and consultation
• institutional transformation
• peacebuilding in practice
• inner coherence and ethical action
Submission format and guidelines
a working title
proposed format (e.g. workshop, panel, artistic contribution)
a short description of content and approach
brief presenter information (name(s), affiliation if relevant)
Kindly note: the Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to 16 February 2026
Proposals will be reviewed with attention to coherence with the conference theme, diversity of perspectives, and participatory potential.
If you book as a day guest, the fee mentioned next to here will be adjusted to:
Friday or Monday:
• Standard fee: € 20,00 euros
• Discounted fee: € 10,00 euros
Saturday or Sunday:
• Standard fee: € 30,00 euros
• Discounted fee: € 15,00 euros
NB:
The package prices mentioned are per person. This means that we will assign you to a Justice Conference participant of the same gender. If you already know who you want to be assigned to, you can write down his/her name in the comments.
Accommodation at De Poort is guaranteed for registrations received up to two weeks before the start of the conference. Registrations received after this date are still welcome, and we will confirm accommodation options based on availability.