The current Brazilian conjuncture, analyzing the role of the security forces, as well as the advances noticed after the implementation of Restorative Justice in Tocantins counties were the themes of the last panel of the Public Security and Human Rights course: A Restorative Look. The course ended on Tuesday afternoon (11th).
Opening the lectures, the creator of the course, the magistrate Antônio Dantas de Oliveira Júnior, outlined a reflective analysis of the issue of promoting Human Rights in today's context. "I would like to register here the importance of our participation in this course. In an environment of so much turmoil, so much violence that we are seeing in the world and in Brazil, Restorative Justice, together with Human Rights and Public Security, are intertwined to open a larger horizon, a wider range, so that one can understand what is happening in our society, because it is sick. And society needs to be restored, needs to be recovered. This course serves to provide an in-depth analysis of what is happening nowadays," he recalled.
In the first lecture, the expert professor Tainã Nunes Quixabeira presented the historical context in the implementation of Restorative Justice in Tocantins. She stressed the importance of building bonds so that a collective dialogue can be formed about the theme. "The peace building circle is, above all, a place for building relationships with people, and not by people. These relationships are built with your story, with my story, with our story, without fear of showing ourselves vulnerable, because it is from this construction of with, not for, nor by people, that the magic happens, it is from this, from the collective construction, that the connection happens," she said.
The second speaker, the expert professor Eliene Diniz da Silva, presented the example of the implementation of the peacebuilding circle in the Judicial Center for Conflict Resolution and Citizenship (CEJUSC) in Araguaína, in the north of the state. "As a facilitator there is no very complex conflict that cannot be solved, as long as the parties want it. All of them can be solved and achieve a certain balance between victim and offender. So, I Eliene, as a person, as a human being, needed to deconstruct myself in some areas of my life and rebuild myself to connect with the other without judgment. My personal, family and personal life changed a lot. I learn a little bit every day, I say that the peace building circles help the other as they help me",
During about two months, the eight panels approached several themes related to Restorative Justice and the Culture of Peace, and counted with hundreds of participants from several organs linked to the Security Forces and Human Rights in Tocantins and other states of the country.
