Conflict Resolution in Prisons. Education, Restorative Justice and Prisoner Facilitated Mediation

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Luis Millana ◽  
Juan Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez ◽  
Fernando Miralles Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Restorative Justice

scholarly journals La cara opuesta al retribucionismo penal: la justicia restaurativa y la especial protección de los menores de edad

2020 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Marta María Aguilar Cárceles
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Derecho Penal

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal el poner de manifiesto cómo la modernización del Derecho Penal lleva consigo la indiscutible consideración de corrientes más humanitarias propias de la Justicia Restaurativa. Como es sabido, la posible cabida de soluciones extrajudiciales o distintas a las vías convencionales ofertadas por la Administración se convierten en un recurso con múltiples ventajas, ya sea la propia agilización del Sistema de Justicia, como la misma consideración de una salida más resocializadora para el infractor. Ahora bien, pese a ello, lo que no debe perderse de vista es que la principal protagonista dentro de estos procedimientos es la víctima, siendo imprescindible garantizar sus derechos a lo largo de todo el proceso para no llegar a desvirtuar la propia esencia de los modelos restaurativos. Para ello, se comienza haciendo una breve conceptualización y un encuadre legislativo, internacional y nacional, de lo que compete a las medidas alternativas de resolución de conflictos, para proseguir con aquellos aspectos que atañen a los menores de edad como sujetos de especial vulnerabilidad. Finalmente, destacan los aspectos más prácticos de la citada temática, esto es, lo relativo a los programas de actuación y medidas de prevención de futuros conflictos a través de la aplicación específica de la mediación penal y de la mediación penitenciaria. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the modernization of Criminal Law entails the unquestionable consideration of a more humanitarian perspectives proper to the Restorative Justice.  by the Administration becomes a resource with multiple advantages, either the fact of making a Justice System more dynamic, as the consideration of a more re-socializing ways for the offender. Despite that, the aspect that should be always present is that the main protagonist in these procedures is the victim, being essential to guarantee their rights throughout the process in order to not distort the essence of restorative models. For this, this article begins making a brief conceptualization and a legislative framework, both international and national, of all the aspects that define the alternative measures of conflict resolution, to continue with those aspects that concern to minors as subjects of special vulnerability. Finally, it will be stand out the most practical aspects of this topic, that is, what concerns to action programs and measures to prevent future conflicts through the specific application of criminal mediation and prison mediation.

Gununa peacemaking

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Brigg ◽  
Paul Memmott ◽  
Philip Venables ◽  
Berry Zondag
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Australian Aboriginal Community

Informal conflict management implicitly claims to value cultural difference and to be able to mediate relations between cultural minorities and states. This article considers this claim in challenging circumstances borne of settler-colonialism by examining the cultural politics of the establishment of a conflict resolution programme in an Australian Aboriginal community. In addition to settler-colonial maligning of Aboriginal capacities to manage conflict, the Gununa community has in recent decades faced the severe attenuation of customary processes and escalating uncontrolled violence. Nonetheless, the Mornington Island Restorative Justice Project involved a spontaneous appropriation of mediation as a customary initiative and an accompanying implicit negotiation between the customary sociolegal order of Mornington Islanders and that of the liberal settler-state. Analysis of these circumstances and relations leads us to argue that informalism can support cultural difference and mediate relations with the state, although it cannot be relied upon to transform the accompanying asymmetric relationship. Nonetheless, informalism may sustain and contribute to the possibilities for transformative change by improving delivery of justice services and through recognition of Indigenous capacities and approaches to sociopolitical order.

scholarly journals Restorative Justice in Cordillera Administrative Region: Tradition and Praxis towards a Peace Process Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Jesster Pasule Eduardo
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The study assessed the peace processes under the concept of Restorative Justice in Cordillera Administrate Region (CAR). Restorative Justice (RJ) is a means to heal, not punish, the harm caused by one person to another. It is a process which allows the harmed party to participate in the decisions which are made to heal the harm caused them. The study used the Individual Positivism Theory to analyze the use of RJ in CAR. Through Descriptive Survey Method, the level of attainment of the goals and objectives of peace processes was measured based on the responses of the three groups of respondents in the study namely: (a) Stakeholders (victims, complainants, respondents, witnesses, and the community); (b) Barangay Peace and Order Council (BPOC) (Lupong Tagapamayapa chaired by the Punong Barangay [Barangay Officials] and Council of Elders); and (c) PNP organic personnel. Hence, study showed that RJ through indigenous method of conflict resolution played a significant role in preserving Unity, Peace and Order, and Justice in the community most especially among families, relatives, or clans in CAR. 

scholarly journals Educar para a paz: práticas restaurativas na resolução de conflitos escolares

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elston Américo Junior ◽  
Cezar Bueno de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Restorative Practices ◽  
Porto Alegre

O artigo busca demonstrar uma alternativa para as resoluções de conflitos no interior das escolas, demonstrando que a cultura de punição é muita disseminada culturalmente nas instituições ocidentais. Para tanto, é sugerido a Justiça Restaurativa para mediar os conflitos escolares. Suscitando questionamentos acerca de sua aplicabilidade e utilizando um método comparativo de experiências das práticas restaurativas em outros contextos, a pesquisa toma corpo utilizando pesquisas sobre a implementação de tais práticas em São Paulo, Porto Alegre e Nova Zelândia. Palavras-chave: Conflitos Escolares; Justiça Restaurativa; Mediação Pacífica. The paper demonstrates an alternative for conflict resolution within schools, showing that the culture of punishment is much culturally widespread in Western institutions. Therefore, it is suggested Restorative Justice to mediate the conflict school. Raised questions about its applicability and using a comparative method of experiences of restorative practices in other contexts, the research takes shape using research on the implementation of such practices in Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and New Zealand. Keywords: School Conflicts; Restorative Justice; Peaceful Mediation.

scholarly journals Restorative justice and the resolution of judicial conflicts: na analysis of the restorative justice Program of the General Department of Social and Education Actions (DEGASE –RJ)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Vitória Abrahão Cabral ◽  
Valdir Júnio dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
Justice Program

The analytical and practical field of restorative justice is linked to the debates on the new social conflict management that challenge the institutional design of criminal justice and the Brazilian legal system. When starting from the problematization of the Brazilian criminal justice, we assume that the penalty under neoliberalism presents itself as a societal project that is sustained by the paradox of the potentiation of the police and penitentiary State and the minimization of the economic and social areas of action of the State. Thus, restorative justice emerges as an efficient conflict resolution mechanism, mainly because its criminal approach is based on equating relationships and repairing the damage caused to individuals and communities. In this context, this research aims at analyzing the impact of the implementation of the Restorative Justice Program of the General Department of Social and Education Actions (DEGASE, abbreviation in Portuguese) established by Ordinance 441 of September 13, 2017, within the scope of the social and education units, as well as the challenges presented to those responsible for implementing the law in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (judges, public defenders, members of the Public Prosecution Service and the DEGASE System) inthe management of restorative practices directed at juvenile offenders deprived of freedom. This problematization raises questions about the limits of the definition of crime and punishment; the relationship between criminal law; and the protection of human rights. The research is structured in three stages: systematic review of the academic field of restorative justice and the Brazilian criminal justice system; elaboration of a framework of the experiences of policies developed in the field of restorativejustice in the state of Rio de Janeiro; and the elaboration of the sociodemographic profile of adolescents and their family structure –analyzing the variables:gender, infraction, age group, monthly family income, education, family structure, and territoriality. It is expected to obtain a critical view of the state of the art of literature on restorative justice in the Brazilian criminal justice system and the debate in the field of conflict resolution criminalized by juvenile offenders served by the Restorative Justice Program of the General Department of Social and Education Actions (DEGASE).

scholarly journals Restorative justice approaches in intercultural conflict settings: Findings of a survey and implications for practice

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Edit Törzs
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Intercultural Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
European Research Project ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Justice Practice

This article is written in the framework of a European research project called ?ALTERNATIVE1: Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies?. After explaining the role culture may play in conflict and conflict resolution, the part of the research presented in this article examines different understandings of the intercultural aspect related to conflicts as well as its implications for restorative justice practice. Presenting results of a survey mapping existing restorative justice practices in intercultural conflict settings in Europe, the paper draws a picture on European realities in the field.

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