It made over a million entries at the box office. Last spring, the drama of Jeanne Hézan, I will always see your faces moved the French public by offering them an approach to restorative justice. Enough to democratize a hitherto little-known concept.
As a reminder, restorative justice aims to repair both the victims and the perpetrators of an offense. To achieve this, it puts in place a set of practices where exchange and listening take precedence, which sometimes involves establishing a dialogue between the victim and their attacker. A judicial system complementary to the sentence handed down, but which offers another avenue of reparation.
Another proposal chooses to go even further. In our weekly meeting ” Wait a minute ! “, we hand our microphone to the activist Elsa Deck-Marsault who has just published Make justicea work on transformative justice.
Punitive logic, too destructive for a group
The concept comes to us from the United States. Its objective is to invent new forms of justice to be able to manage conflict situations without requiring legal proceedings. As a starting point for her reflection, the activist observed the failure of the collectives she supports to resolve conflict situations within them without reproducing violence or without marginalizing.
In the news, we can remember the difficulty with which the political groups La France insoumise and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts tried to resolve, internally and publicly, the cases of accusation of domestic violence for one and of harassment for the other.
Also, according to Elsa Deck Marsault, who favors transformative justice, we must learn to resolve conflicts without responding according to a punitive logic, which is too destructive for a group. She tells us more in this podcast.
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