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RELATIONAL RESPONSABILITY AND RESTORATIVE PRACTICES: BUILDING POSSIBILITIES FOR CHANGE

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Abstract

Restorative justice (RJ) is considered an alternative approach of justice that seeks through restorative practices to build new senses of justice and transform the way of relating based on individualistic tradition, from relational and community ethics. In this theoretical essay, we seek to analyze restorative practices of conference victim-offender-community, familiar group conference and peacebuilding circle from the concept of relational responsibility and its domains of intelligibility, that is: internal others, conjoint relations, relations among groups and systemic process. The analysis carried out points out how the concept of relational responsibility contributes for restorative practices to broaden the domains of accountability for social conflicts, recognize the macro-social conditions of their production and implement a practice committed to facing the historical social injustices that permeate social conflicts. Otherwise, we are at risk of reproducing and sustaining a punitive model of justice.

Author Biographies

Cristiane Paulin Simon, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

Mestre e doutora em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo, pós-doutorado pelo Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia com estágio no Centre of Restorative Justice da Simon Fraser University, Canadá; e, facilitadora em Justiça Restaurativa. Atualmente, é Professora Associada da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro.

 

Emerson Fernando Rasera, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Mestre e doutor em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2000, 2004), e pós-doutorado pela University of New Hampshire (EUA) (2011-2012) e Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2018-2019). Atualmente, é Professor Titular da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia e docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa "Psicologia, Saúde e Construcionismo Social" (CNPQ). Bolsista  PQ/ CNPQ e Pesquisador Mineiro/FAPEMIG

Published

2023-10-18

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