Created as scientific and academic theory in the mid 1970s, Restorative Justice was first implemented in 1989 in New Zealand and later in several countries. The Peacebuilding Circle Methodology arrived in Brazil in 2005 and was initiated in 2015 in Tocantins, Araguaína, in the north of the state.
With the proposal of training and updating the participants so that they can contribute to the improvement and enhancement of the activities developed in the application of restorative practices, the School of Judges of Tocantins (ESMAT) held last Monday (17th), the IV Seminar on Restorative Justice and III Meeting of Restorative Justice Facilitators. The event had hundreds of participants and lectures by Judge Leoberto Brancher, coordinator of the Restorative Justice Center of the TJRS; Judge Joanice Maria Guimarães, president of the Restorative Justice Center of the TJBA; Judge Antônio Dantas de Oliveira Júnior, of the 2nd Criminal Court of the District of Araguaína-TO.
At the opening of the event, judge Márcio Ricardo Ferreira Machado, coordinator of Nupemec - Coordination of Restorative Justice of Tocantins -, emphasized the importance of the two simultaneous events, held for the first time in the Distance Learning mode. "It was my honor to open this event, which, no doubt, will be registered as one of the best ever held in this state. We can already see such success just by looking at the program, because the themes, the qualification of the speakers and the coordinators guarantee us the relevance of this Event", he emphasized. On the occasion, judge Rosa Maria Rodrigues Gazire Rossi, president of the Restorative Justice Management Committee of the State of Tocantins, participated in the opening ceremony. The event also counted with the magistrates Umbelina Lopes Pereira, Julianne Freire Marques and Deusamar Alves Bezerra as coordinators.
Restorative Justice is an ordered and systemic set of principles, methods, techniques and activities of its own, which aims at raising awareness about the relational, institutional and social factors that motivate conflicts and violence, through which conflicts that generate damage, concrete or abstract, are resolved in a structured manner. The National Public Policy of Restorative Justice, within the Judiciary, is outlined in Resolution No. 225, 2016, of the National Council of Justice and aims to consolidate the identity and quality of Restorative Justice as defined in the norms, so that it is not distorted or trivialized.
