THE Public University of Navarra (UPNA) will implement in 2025 a new university degree in restorative justicedesigned by General Directorate of Justice in collaboration with the university center.
This was announced by the director of the Reintegration, Mediation and Restorative Justice Service of the Government of Navarra, Jorge Ollero, and the professor of criminal law at UPNA, Inés Olaizola, entities whose collaboration will mean student grant for 90% of training100 hours.
He the course will train the people who follow it to carry out criminal mediation processesrestorative circles and other restorative justice techniques, and will provide them with tools to apply gender from an intersectional perspective.
Training, intended for people who are or wish to be part restorative justice teamsas well as people interested in new paradigms of conflict resolution and repair of personal and social harm, will address, on the one hand, the fundamental aspects of restorative justice and community restorative practices and, on the other hand, the techniques intervention in this area.
University microcredentials in Navarre
The course is part of the framework university microcredentialswhich are training certifications intended to acquire specific knowledge, skills or competencies in different areas and subjects, with flexible and adaptable formats to suit the needs of adult students.
In the case of Navarra, the UPNA must issue a total of 783 microcertificates until 2026, thanks to the 652,271 euros allocated by the Department of University, Innovation and Digital Transformation, through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Spanish Government.
Restorative Justice Conference
The announcement was made as part of the “Restorative Stories” Conference, in which the Minister of Interior, Civil Service and Justice, Amparo López, showed her department’s commitment to restorative justice, mediation and restorative practices, which constitute “approaches to conflict prevention, management and resolution oriented towards building a peaceful and enriching coexistence.
“We want to put the victim at the center of the process and be attentive to their needs, without forgetting either promote the reintegration of those responsible for crimegiving them the opportunity to repair the damage caused,” he noted.
Likewise, López added that the development of the provincial law of restorative justice, mediation and restorative practices “will lead to an improvement in the services that make up the justice system“.
For her part, the Director General of Justice, Maite Arenaza, indicated at the closing of the event that the university is a “very powerful space from which promote this paradigm of restoration of the damage caused and improving coexistence.
“The world of justice and restorative practices continue to evolve and open avenues of work, and from the General Management, we will continue to have the promotion of this area as a priority,” he explained.
