TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE
Transformative Justice; Community Circles; Structural and Cultural Violences; Community Protagonism
The object of this work is the study how community identify and transform their violences within their own communities, considering the guidelines on Transformative Justice. Through this research, we intend to identify and investigate appropriate social practices to encourage vulnerable socioeconomic communities to be protagonists in this process, from a transformative and emancipatory perspective. The hypothesis considered is that Community Circles, due to their dialogic, cooperative and democratic dynamics, constitute a social practice capable of providing this protagonism. This is because the participatory circular methodology allows communities to critically reflect on the numerous dimensions of reality, while projecting possibilities of social transformation. We intend to examine, through a qualitative research, whether this circular methodology can stimulate critical reflection and if the actions derived from it can go beyond the interpersonal dimensions and have repercussions in the simbolic and structural spheres, as advocated by Transformative Justice.