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Provides a listing of articles on restorative justice developments in Chile. Articles appear in the order in which they were added to the site with the most recent appearing first.

Restorative Justice Everywhere: Final Update from the UN Crime Congress: Friday (my last day at the UN Crime Congress) was busy with ancillary sessions and sitting through one of the main workshops. The first ancillary session, organised by Prison Fellowship International, looked at Latin American Experiences with Restorative Justice. I opened the session with a brief introduction of the participants describing the goal of the session as opening a dialogue on the various experiences with restorative justice in the region.
Chilean delegation learns about the “Safe Streets” program and participates in a circle: from Lisa J. Laplante's entry on the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog: In the afternoon, we were joined by Distinguished Professor and Director of the MULS Restorative Justice Initiative, Janine Geske and headed to the South Side of Milwaukee in an MU athletic van. At the Kosciusko Community Center, we met with Paulina de Haan, co-coordinator of the Safe Streets Program, who had convened a circle of community members: parole officers, offenders who recently finished their prison terms, and policemen.
Price, Marty D.. Restorative Justice Speaking Tour in Argentina and Chile.: For two weeks this past May, I visited Argentina and Chile to speak about restorative justice at the request of each country’s Ministry of Justice. As a pioneer in the restorative justice field, I felt confident that I could provide valuable expertise, experience and resources. But, I quickly realized there was more to present than one person could bring. (excerpt)
Lira, Elizabeth. The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile: "This chapter describes the reparations programs implemented in Chile from 1990 to 2004. These programs are addressed to victims of violations of human rights committed during the military regime (1973-90): the relatives of disappeared and executed persons; people who were dismissed from their jobs for political motives; peasants who participated in the land reform and were expelled for political reasons from the land; and Chilean exiles returning to the country. Political prisoners and torture victims were considered only in 2003. The creation of the Commission for Political Imprisonment and Torture (2003-5) was followed by a law that provides pensions to political prisoners and torture victims identified by the Commission. Created with different kinds of victims in mind, these programs have been based on pensions, social services, educational benefits, public recognition of the violations of the victims' rights, monuments, sites of memory, and health assistance, mainly in the form of mental health services. The Program for Reparation and Integral Health Assistance for Victims of Human Rights Violations, created in 1991 and reinforced by a law at the end of 2004, has provided health services to all kinds of victims of human rights violations, including third-generation relatives." (excerpt)
Price, Marty D.. Restorative Justice Speaking Tour in Argentina and Chile.: n May, 2006 I had the unique opportunity to spend two weeks on speaking tours of Argentina and Chile as a restorative justice expert. Initially, I was invited by the Argentine Ministry of Justice. The Chilean Ministry of Justice requested that my tour be extended to Chile after they learned I would be coming to Argentina. The tour was sponsored and paid for by the U.S. Department of State’s Democracy and Human Rights International Information Program. The tour program was called, "Restorative Justice: Practices and Pitfalls - How to Make it Work." (excerpt)
Parker, Lynette. The Use of Restorative Practices in Latin America: Several Latin American countries are looking for alternative methods for dealing with crime and conflict. This opening has spurred both government and civil society to experiment with restorative processes. Innovations include the use of penal mediation for criminal cases, the introduction of peace education into schools, and the incorporation of restorative principles into law. A pilot project in penal mediation by the University of Buenos Aires has led to the inclusion of mediation in the Argentine criminal justice system. Civil society groups in Chile are pioneering mediation in various aspects of life. Other countries seeing innovations include Costa Rica, Brazil and Mexico.
Parker, Lynette. Reforms Create Open Door for Restorative Justice in Chile.: Chile is enacting significant justice system reforms that seem to be opening doors for more restorative elements . Problems with crime and lack of trust in the criminal justice system provoked both the government and civil society to seek new options and creative solutions when seeking justice. These include more emphasis on victimxe2x80x99s issues, the creation of community mechanisms for dealing with conflict, and the introduction of mediation projects into schools.
Acuña, Carlos H.. Transitional Justice in Argentina and Chile: A Never-Ending Story?: The object of this chapter is to analyze and explain the particular dynamics assumed by the political process related to the treatment of military human rights violations during the transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile. This work explains why the actors did what they did as a function of their objectives and the political and institutional constraints they encountered. It analyzes how and why the articulation of the different strategies shaped the political process and, finally, the significance of these processes for the type of democratic regime that emerged in each of these two Latin American countries. (excerpt)
Elster, Jon. Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy: The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of autocratic regimes preceding democratic transitions, and on reparation to victims. Part I contains general theoretical discussions of retribution and reparation. The essays in Part II survey transitional justice in the wake of World War II, covering Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Norway. In Part III, the contributors discuss more recent transitions in Argentina, Chile, Eastern Europe, the former German Democratic Republic, and South Africa, with a chapter on the reparation of injustice in some of these situations. The editor provides a general introduction, a brief introduction to each part, and a conclusion that looks beyond regime transitions to vroader issues of rectifying historical injustice. (Publisher’s description)
Lagos Fuente, Scarlette. ¿Podríamos hacer mediación penal en Chile?: Esta interrogante surge a propósito del proceso que actualmente se está viviendo en Chile, donde las políticas públicas tienden a una modernización de la justicia y en los proyectos de ley y en leyes de reciente ejecución, se hace alusión en general a los medios alternativos de resolución de disputas y, en particular, a la mediación. (extracto)
Sepúlveda, Rodrigo and Mettifogo, Decio. La situación y el tratamiento de jóvenes infractores de ley en Chile: Esta primera publicación en el ámbito del delito juvenil del Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana busca por tanto aportar a la elaboración de políticas democráticas dirigidas a reducir los niveles de violencia y criminalidad. En una primera sección se desarrollará una breve discusión acerca del concepto de juventud a considerar y su evolución. En un segundo punto, se presentará la evolución histórica del tratamiento de adolescentes y jóvenes infractores de ley en Chile. La tercera sección expondrá -de modo de contextualizar los datos sobre delitos disponiblesla situación de los niños y jóvenes en Chile hoy, en términos demográficos y características socioeconómicas. Luego, se realizará una estimación de la participación de menores de edad en la comisión de delitos. Se analizarán las investigaciones existentes que tienen por objeto cuantificar y evaluar la evolución de los delitos violentos cometidos por jóvenes, analizando los criterios utilizados y la calidad de la información disponible. Asimismo, se establecerán criterios y requerimientos para contar con información estadística que dé cuenta de esta realidad. Por último, se analizarán las alternativas y situación actual del tratamiento de jóvenes infractores, desde el punto de vista de los programas ejecutados por el Estado.
Oman, Natalie. Paths to Intercultural Understanding: Feasting, Shared Horizons, and Unforced Consensus.: Theories of intercultural understanding are generally required and formulated in response to conflict between members of different cultures, when differing belief systems or worldviews grate against one another more sharply in the presence of a specific contested resource, value or belief. In such a situation, a theory of intercultural understanding serves as the underpinning for a practical approach to intercultural negotiation aimed at resolving the conflict. In the wake of a general apprehension by Europeans of the existence of the profoundly different civilizations in the inhabitants of other continents in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the colonial era that followed, such situations of conflict have arisen with destructive frequency between members of the dominant societies of “post”-colonial powers and members of formerly colonized peoples within those states or their former satellites. The following story drawn from the long history of these clashes helps to illustrate why approaches to intercultural negotiation that do not place a premium upon the pursuit of the intercultural understanding are unhelpful in achieving lasting resolutions of such disputes. (excerpt)
Barahona de Brito, Alexandra. Passion, Constraint, Law and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy: Alexandra Barahona de Brito characterizes the Chilean response to past human rights violations under the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte in terms of four qualities or aspects: passion; constraint; law; and fortuna. There has been a passion to uncover and confront the past, but this passion has been constrained by the political and constitutional setting and by caution about the balance of power in Chile. To some extent, approaches to reconciliation and democratization have obstructed, rather than reinforced, each other. At the same time, law (a rigid and codified factor) and fortuna (an unpredictable and uncontrollable phenomenon) have challenged the approach toward reconciliation and the forces of constraint. Law and fortuna have in turn led to a wider sense of truth and justice as well as a new impetus toward democratization. Barahona de Briton chronicles the back and forth dynamics of these characteristics over two phases – first, under the Aylwin government from 1990 to 1994; second, under the Frei government from 1994 to 2000 – as Chileans sought to confront and deal with human rights violations under the Pinochet regime. Along with this, she also looks at reconciliation versus democratization through the lens of the Pinochet arrest and consequent legal and political maneuverings in the late 1990s.
Amstutz, Mark R.. The healing of nations: the promise and limits of political forgiveness: Mark Amstutz in this book considers the nature and potential of forgiveness in international and domestic politics. Like many, he had thought of forgiveness in personal terms. It pertained to issues of personal morality, to interpersonal relationships and religious life, but it was not applicable to political life, policies, officials, and structures. However, in response at least in part to Donald Shriver’s An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics (1995), Amstutz began to doubt that there was such a clear and wide divide between personal morality and political morality, with forgiveness relevant to the former and irrelevant to the latter. He came to think that forgiveness, while difficult to apply to political morality, could in fact be practiced in politics, especially in confronting past collective offenses. This led him to explore the potential contribution of concepts like culpability, confession, repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation to processes of collective healing at various levels of group life, including the communal, national, and international. Thus this book came into being. It consists of a study in applied political ethics. Amstutz’s goals in it are to identify and illuminate relevant moral norms with respect to forgiveness and to demonstrate how they can be employed in political life. Looking at four case studies – Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa – he argues that forgiveness, when rooted in restorative justice, can promote healing and renewal in social and political life, thereby fostering a more just, humane, and stable political order. Chapters include the following: the nature and purpose of forgiveness; the possibility and promise of political forgiveness; justice, reconciliation, and political forgiveness; studies of Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa; and thoughts toward a theory of political forgiveness.
Goti, Jaime Malamud. The Moral Dilemmas about Trying Pinochet in Spain: In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was in London, England, receiving medical treatment. A Spanish court, having gathered evidence implicating Pinochet in thousands of abuses perpetrated in Chile under his regime, as well as crimes beyond Chile, requested the British government to arrest Pinochet and extradite him to Spain for trial. After arresting him to consider the Spanish court’s claims, the British government sent Pinochet back to Chile as being too frail to undergo trial in Spain. Those judicial proceedings were fraught with many questions and controversies of jurisdiction, national sovereignty, immunity for heads of state, national and international law, and responsibility for injustices and human rights violations. In this context, Jaime Malamud Goti investigates the merits and demerits of international criminal justice in prosecuting state criminals.
Aimone, Daniel. Análisis de la procedencia de la mediación en el nuevo sistema procesal penal: Se ha sostenido que la mediación parece un instrumento útil en el nuevo proceso penal de Chile, instando a practicarla en especial en los acuerdos reparatorios. Tal afirmación a nuestro juicio no es correcta, pues ésta se estructura básicamente en la voluntad de las partes, la que debe ser manifestada en forma libre y sin sujeción a coerción alguna. Como demostraremos, ello no ocurre en el nuevo modelo. El ofensor o imputado jamás será libre ni estará en condiciones de igualdad para mediar con la víctima. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org.
Cortés Coto, Ronald. Algunos apuntes sobre la legitimación para conciliar en el nuevo Código Procesal Penal: El código procesal penal de 1998 de Costa Rica trae como una de sus principales novedades, el instituto de la Conciliación. Esta figura jurídica ha venido funcionando en otras ramas del derecho, tales como la laboral y la civil, e incluso en nuestra materia cuando se trata de delitos de acción privada. En algunos casos ha funcionado con buen suceso, como en el derecho del trabajo, en otros no tanto como es el caso de la materia penal, en la cual las partes involucradas en la querella generalmente no logran ningun acuerdo, sin que tampoco el Juez Penal haya tenido una participación muy activa en esta audiencia. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org.
Alconada, Julio. Resolución de conflictos y mediación penal: A partir del año 1993, se realizaron investigaciones respecto de tópicos concernientes exclusivamente a las víctimas, y ya en el año 1995, se inició una investigación sobre Resoluciones Alternativas de Disputas. Es muy grande el interés que ha venido despertando en el continente algo así como un “movimiento" que se aboca al desarrollo de métodos alternos de resolución de conflictos. Muchos, se entusiasman de manera muy contagiosa con dichos mecanismos, considerando sus múltiples virtudes. Otros, muy ajustadamente, se preguntan de qué se trata esta "novedad," y se inquietan por la eventual posibilidad de convertirse en prácticas de moda. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org.
Ferrandino, Alvaro. Reformas para facilitar el acceso a la justicia: El siguiente documento análiza dos iniciativas que aparecen con diferentes niveles de desarrollo en America Latina: los mecanismos que facilitan el acceso de la población a la justicia, con énfasis en los métodos alternativos de resolución de conflictos y, el desarrollo de la defensa pública penal. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org.
Garrido, John. Nuevas soluciones a conflictos penal alternativas al juicio: El nuevo código procesal penal dominicano se expresa organizando formas de solución al conflicto de relevancia penal distintas a la que tradicionalmente se viene usando con el juicio. En tal sentido indica el nuevo código en su articulo 2 "solución del conflicto. Los tribunales procuran resolver el conflicto surgido a consecuencia del hecho punible, para contribuir a restaurar la armonía social. En todo caso, al proceso penal se le reconoce el carácter de medida extrema de la política criminal." Este principio para resolver un problema de carácter penal tiene su origen en varios documentos de dimensión internacional sobre derechos humanos que han adoptado nuevas formas distinta al juicio. El resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org.

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The first ancillary session, organised by Prison Fellowship International, looked at Latin American Experiences with Restorative Justice. I opened the session with a brief introduction of the participants describing the goal of the session as opening a dialogue on the various experiences with restorative justice in the region. Chilean delegation learns about the “Safe Streets” program and participates in a circle from Lisa J. Laplante's entry on the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog: In the afternoon, we were joined by Distinguished Professor and Director of the MULS Restorative Justice Initiative, Janine Geske and headed to the South Side of Milwaukee in an MU athletic van. At the Kosciusko Community Center, we met with Paulina de Haan, co-coordinator of the Safe Streets Program, who had convened a circle of community members: parole officers, offenders who recently finished their prison terms, and policemen. Price, Marty D.. Restorative Justice Speaking Tour in Argentina and Chile. For two weeks this past May, I visited Argentina and Chile to speak about restorative justice at the request of each country’s Ministry of Justice. As a pioneer in the restorative justice field, I felt confident that I could provide valuable expertise, experience and resources. But, I quickly realized there was more to present than one person could bring. (excerpt) Lira, Elizabeth. The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile "This chapter describes the reparations programs implemented in Chile from 1990 to 2004. These programs are addressed to victims of violations of human rights committed during the military regime (1973-90): the relatives of disappeared and executed persons; people who were dismissed from their jobs for political motives; peasants who participated in the land reform and were expelled for political reasons from the land; and Chilean exiles returning to the country. Political prisoners and torture victims were considered only in 2003. The creation of the Commission for Political Imprisonment and Torture (2003-5) was followed by a law that provides pensions to political prisoners and torture victims identified by the Commission. Created with different kinds of victims in mind, these programs have been based on pensions, social services, educational benefits, public recognition of the violations of the victims' rights, monuments, sites of memory, and health assistance, mainly in the form of mental health services. The Program for Reparation and Integral Health Assistance for Victims of Human Rights Violations, created in 1991 and reinforced by a law at the end of 2004, has provided health services to all kinds of victims of human rights violations, including third-generation relatives." (excerpt) Price, Marty D.. Restorative Justice Speaking Tour in Argentina and Chile. n May, 2006 I had the unique opportunity to spend two weeks on speaking tours of Argentina and Chile as a restorative justice expert. Initially, I was invited by the Argentine Ministry of Justice. The Chilean Ministry of Justice requested that my tour be extended to Chile after they learned I would be coming to Argentina. The tour was sponsored and paid for by the U.S. Department of State’s Democracy and Human Rights International Information Program. The tour program was called, "Restorative Justice: Practices and Pitfalls - How to Make it Work." (excerpt) Parker, Lynette. The Use of Restorative Practices in Latin America Several Latin American countries are looking for alternative methods for dealing with crime and conflict. This opening has spurred both government and civil society to experiment with restorative processes. Innovations include the use of penal mediation for criminal cases, the introduction of peace education into schools, and the incorporation of restorative principles into law. A pilot project in penal mediation by the University of Buenos Aires has led to the inclusion of mediation in the Argentine criminal justice system. Civil society groups in Chile are pioneering mediation in various aspects of life. Other countries seeing innovations include Costa Rica, Brazil and Mexico. Parker, Lynette. Reforms Create Open Door for Restorative Justice in Chile. Chile is enacting significant justice system reforms that seem to be opening doors for more restorative elements . Problems with crime and lack of trust in the criminal justice system provoked both the government and civil society to seek new options and creative solutions when seeking justice. These include more emphasis on victimxe2x80x99s issues, the creation of community mechanisms for dealing with conflict, and the introduction of mediation projects into schools. Acuña, Carlos H.. Transitional Justice in Argentina and Chile: A Never-Ending Story? The object of this chapter is to analyze and explain the particular dynamics assumed by the political process related to the treatment of military human rights violations during the transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile. This work explains why the actors did what they did as a function of their objectives and the political and institutional constraints they encountered. It analyzes how and why the articulation of the different strategies shaped the political process and, finally, the significance of these processes for the type of democratic regime that emerged in each of these two Latin American countries. (excerpt) Elster, Jon. Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of autocratic regimes preceding democratic transitions, and on reparation to victims. Part I contains general theoretical discussions of retribution and reparation. The essays in Part II survey transitional justice in the wake of World War II, covering Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Norway. In Part III, the contributors discuss more recent transitions in Argentina, Chile, Eastern Europe, the former German Democratic Republic, and South Africa, with a chapter on the reparation of injustice in some of these situations. The editor provides a general introduction, a brief introduction to each part, and a conclusion that looks beyond regime transitions to vroader issues of rectifying historical injustice. (Publisher’s description) Lagos Fuente, Scarlette. ¿Podríamos hacer mediación penal en Chile? Esta interrogante surge a propósito del proceso que actualmente se está viviendo en Chile, donde las políticas públicas tienden a una modernización de la justicia y en los proyectos de ley y en leyes de reciente ejecución, se hace alusión en general a los medios alternativos de resolución de disputas y, en particular, a la mediación. (extracto) Sepúlveda, Rodrigo and Mettifogo, Decio. La situación y el tratamiento de jóvenes infractores de ley en Chile Esta primera publicación en el ámbito del delito juvenil del Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana busca por tanto aportar a la elaboración de políticas democráticas dirigidas a reducir los niveles de violencia y criminalidad. En una primera sección se desarrollará una breve discusión acerca del concepto de juventud a considerar y su evolución. En un segundo punto, se presentará la evolución histórica del tratamiento de adolescentes y jóvenes infractores de ley en Chile. La tercera sección expondrá -de modo de contextualizar los datos sobre delitos disponiblesla situación de los niños y jóvenes en Chile hoy, en términos demográficos y características socioeconómicas. Luego, se realizará una estimación de la participación de menores de edad en la comisión de delitos. Se analizarán las investigaciones existentes que tienen por objeto cuantificar y evaluar la evolución de los delitos violentos cometidos por jóvenes, analizando los criterios utilizados y la calidad de la información disponible. Asimismo, se establecerán criterios y requerimientos para contar con información estadística que dé cuenta de esta realidad. Por último, se analizarán las alternativas y situación actual del tratamiento de jóvenes infractores, desde el punto de vista de los programas ejecutados por el Estado. Oman, Natalie. Paths to Intercultural Understanding: Feasting, Shared Horizons, and Unforced Consensus. Theories of intercultural understanding are generally required and formulated in response to conflict between members of different cultures, when differing belief systems or worldviews grate against one another more sharply in the presence of a specific contested resource, value or belief. In such a situation, a theory of intercultural understanding serves as the underpinning for a practical approach to intercultural negotiation aimed at resolving the conflict. In the wake of a general apprehension by Europeans of the existence of the profoundly different civilizations in the inhabitants of other continents in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the colonial era that followed, such situations of conflict have arisen with destructive frequency between members of the dominant societies of “post”-colonial powers and members of formerly colonized peoples within those states or their former satellites. The following story drawn from the long history of these clashes helps to illustrate why approaches to intercultural negotiation that do not place a premium upon the pursuit of the intercultural understanding are unhelpful in achieving lasting resolutions of such disputes. (excerpt) Barahona de Brito, Alexandra. Passion, Constraint, Law and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy Alexandra Barahona de Brito characterizes the Chilean response to past human rights violations under the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte in terms of four qualities or aspects: passion; constraint; law; and fortuna. There has been a passion to uncover and confront the past, but this passion has been constrained by the political and constitutional setting and by caution about the balance of power in Chile. To some extent, approaches to reconciliation and democratization have obstructed, rather than reinforced, each other. At the same time, law (a rigid and codified factor) and fortuna (an unpredictable and uncontrollable phenomenon) have challenged the approach toward reconciliation and the forces of constraint. Law and fortuna have in turn led to a wider sense of truth and justice as well as a new impetus toward democratization. Barahona de Briton chronicles the back and forth dynamics of these characteristics over two phases – first, under the Aylwin government from 1990 to 1994; second, under the Frei government from 1994 to 2000 – as Chileans sought to confront and deal with human rights violations under the Pinochet regime. Along with this, she also looks at reconciliation versus democratization through the lens of the Pinochet arrest and consequent legal and political maneuverings in the late 1990s. Amstutz, Mark R.. The healing of nations: the promise and limits of political forgiveness Mark Amstutz in this book considers the nature and potential of forgiveness in international and domestic politics. Like many, he had thought of forgiveness in personal terms. It pertained to issues of personal morality, to interpersonal relationships and religious life, but it was not applicable to political life, policies, officials, and structures. However, in response at least in part to Donald Shriver’s An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics (1995), Amstutz began to doubt that there was such a clear and wide divide between personal morality and political morality, with forgiveness relevant to the former and irrelevant to the latter. He came to think that forgiveness, while difficult to apply to political morality, could in fact be practiced in politics, especially in confronting past collective offenses. This led him to explore the potential contribution of concepts like culpability, confession, repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation to processes of collective healing at various levels of group life, including the communal, national, and international. Thus this book came into being. It consists of a study in applied political ethics. Amstutz’s goals in it are to identify and illuminate relevant moral norms with respect to forgiveness and to demonstrate how they can be employed in political life. Looking at four case studies – Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa – he argues that forgiveness, when rooted in restorative justice, can promote healing and renewal in social and political life, thereby fostering a more just, humane, and stable political order. Chapters include the following: the nature and purpose of forgiveness; the possibility and promise of political forgiveness; justice, reconciliation, and political forgiveness; studies of Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa; and thoughts toward a theory of political forgiveness. Goti, Jaime Malamud. The Moral Dilemmas about Trying Pinochet in Spain In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was in London, England, receiving medical treatment. A Spanish court, having gathered evidence implicating Pinochet in thousands of abuses perpetrated in Chile under his regime, as well as crimes beyond Chile, requested the British government to arrest Pinochet and extradite him to Spain for trial. After arresting him to consider the Spanish court’s claims, the British government sent Pinochet back to Chile as being too frail to undergo trial in Spain. Those judicial proceedings were fraught with many questions and controversies of jurisdiction, national sovereignty, immunity for heads of state, national and international law, and responsibility for injustices and human rights violations. In this context, Jaime Malamud Goti investigates the merits and demerits of international criminal justice in prosecuting state criminals. Aimone, Daniel. Análisis de la procedencia de la mediación en el nuevo sistema procesal penal Se ha sostenido que la mediación parece un instrumento útil en el nuevo proceso penal de Chile, instando a practicarla en especial en los acuerdos reparatorios. Tal afirmación a nuestro juicio no es correcta, pues ésta se estructura básicamente en la voluntad de las partes, la que debe ser manifestada en forma libre y sin sujeción a coerción alguna. Como demostraremos, ello no ocurre en el nuevo modelo. El ofensor o imputado jamás será libre ni estará en condiciones de igualdad para mediar con la víctima. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org. Cortés Coto, Ronald. Algunos apuntes sobre la legitimación para conciliar en el nuevo Código Procesal Penal El código procesal penal de 1998 de Costa Rica trae como una de sus principales novedades, el instituto de la Conciliación. Esta figura jurídica ha venido funcionando en otras ramas del derecho, tales como la laboral y la civil, e incluso en nuestra materia cuando se trata de delitos de acción privada. En algunos casos ha funcionado con buen suceso, como en el derecho del trabajo, en otros no tanto como es el caso de la materia penal, en la cual las partes involucradas en la querella generalmente no logran ningun acuerdo, sin que tampoco el Juez Penal haya tenido una participación muy activa en esta audiencia. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org. Alconada, Julio. Resolución de conflictos y mediación penal A partir del año 1993, se realizaron investigaciones respecto de tópicos concernientes exclusivamente a las víctimas, y ya en el año 1995, se inició una investigación sobre Resoluciones Alternativas de Disputas. Es muy grande el interés que ha venido despertando en el continente algo así como un “movimiento" que se aboca al desarrollo de métodos alternos de resolución de conflictos. Muchos, se entusiasman de manera muy contagiosa con dichos mecanismos, considerando sus múltiples virtudes. Otros, muy ajustadamente, se preguntan de qué se trata esta "novedad," y se inquietan por la eventual posibilidad de convertirse en prácticas de moda. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org. Ferrandino, Alvaro. Reformas para facilitar el acceso a la justicia El siguiente documento análiza dos iniciativas que aparecen con diferentes niveles de desarrollo en America Latina: los mecanismos que facilitan el acceso de la población a la justicia, con énfasis en los métodos alternativos de resolución de conflictos y, el desarrollo de la defensa pública penal. Resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org. Garrido, John. Nuevas soluciones a conflictos penal alternativas al juicio El nuevo código procesal penal dominicano se expresa organizando formas de solución al conflicto de relevancia penal distintas a la que tradicionalmente se viene usando con el juicio. En tal sentido indica el nuevo código en su articulo 2 "solución del conflicto. Los tribunales procuran resolver el conflicto surgido a consecuencia del hecho punible, para contribuir a restaurar la armonía social. En todo caso, al proceso penal se le reconoce el carácter de medida extrema de la política criminal." Este principio para resolver un problema de carácter penal tiene su origen en varios documentos de dimensión internacional sobre derechos humanos que han adoptado nuevas formas distinta al juicio. El resumen del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas, www.cejamericas.org. 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