Mexico training public servants in restorative justice
Nov 12, 2009
From 12 October to 6 November, the Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE—State Attorney General) of the Mexican State of Oaxaca, in conjunction with the non-governmental organisation Proderecho, hosted diploma course featuring restorative justice and several alternative dispute resolution processes. The course, “Managing conflicts: negotiation, mediation, and restorative justice,” provided an overview of the dynamics of personal and group conflicts and different conflict resolution processes.
Twenty participants attended the course including public servants from the Oaxaca Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, the PGJE, and workers from different non-governmental organisations. During the closing ceremony for the course, presenters explained how alternative processes help avoid drawn out and costly court processes, provide for peaceful resolution, and help avoid problems arising for hate and grudges that can result from conflict.
The diploma course is a part of PGDJ’s work to provide more access to justice for members of community. In coincides with the work of the Subsection on Attention to Victims, Restorative Justice, and Services to the Community created in 2008 in an attempt to bring peaceful resolution of conflicts. The subsection maintains a restorative justice centre that provides services in the resolution of conflicts ranging from criminal to family, from neighbourhood to civil disputes. It offers three alternatives: conciliation, mediation, and the restorative process.
Read more about the diploma course.
Read more about the restorative justice centre.
Both of these links go to Spanish language documents.
