The Public University of Navarra will offer the University Degree in Restorative Justice in 2025
- Restorative Justice aims, through mediation and direct communication between people, to resolve a conflict of a penal nature. The training to be provided by the UPNA will be 100 hours and 90% of the tuition fees will be paid to students.
On Monday, they presented the new University Degree of Restorative Justice Jorge Ollero, director of the Social Reintegration, Mediation and Restorative Justice Service of the Government of Navarra; Inés Olaizola, professor of Criminal Law of the UPNA; and Amparo López, member of the Interior, Public Service and Justice.
University education will be micro-formative, a short course that aims to acquire specific knowledge or competencies. The UPNA will offer a total of 783 Restorative Justice places, to which a total of 652,271 euros will be allocated.
The University's Department of Innovation and Digital Transformation and the Spanish Government's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan have allocated this money to the project. Students will therefore be paid 90% of the costs through grants.
Those taking the course will have the possibility to work in criminal mediation services, replenishment circles and other restorative justice techniques.
The UPNA offers training aimed at people who belong, want to be or are interested in new paradigms of repairing personal and social harm to Restorative Justice groups. It will have a flexible and adaptable format to adapt to the needs of adult students.
López explained that this type of justice is intended to put the victim at the centre and meet their needs, not forgetting "the reinsertion" of those responsible for the crime and the possibility of repairing the damage caused.
That was said to me by the former student, who took a long time to file a complaint that was in court months and who, on the recommendation of the psychologist, had withdrawn the complaint of rape. And I kept quiet, unable to guess what to tell the young man that he still had... [+]
