XII International Congress 2021: Resignification of Criminal Policy in a Restorative Key

The Criminal Policy Research Center of the Universidad Externado de Colombia, in collaboration with the Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and Justice - Ilanud- (UN) - and the International Committee of the Colombian Red Cross -CICR-, are pleased to invite you to this International Congress.

  • Date: November 24, 2021
  • Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  • Modality: Hybrid

The event will be attended by experts from different national and international universities and international organizations who will share their knowledge on human dignity, alternatives as a dignifying option to the criminal response, restorative justice, own justice, among other topics, in order to build proposals to make criminal policy more humane, minimal and restorative.

The Congress will be held in hybrid mode:

The morning session (8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) will be transmitted via Zoom. Register here

The afternoon session (from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) will be held in the Auditorium 2 of Building H of the Universidad Externado de Colombia and will also be transmitted via Zoom in the above-mentioned link.

Lectures and discussions will be presented in the following panels:

  1. Human dignity: an essential prerequisite in a social and democratic state governed by the rule of law.
  2. From a restorative society to restorative justice.
  3. Beyond punishment: towards a diversity of justice.
  4. Towards a new social responsibility in a human rights perspective.

Speakers

Raúl Zaffaroni

Judge

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Angélica Pardo López

Center for Criminal Policy Research

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

José Manuel Arroyo Gutiérrez

Former Vice President of the Supreme Court of Justice

Costa Rica

 

Ana Lucía Moncayo Albornoz

Center for Criminal Policy Research

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Francisco Javier Gómez Lanz

Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid- Spain-.

 

Marcela Olarte Delgado

Center for Criminal Policy Research

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Oscar Ayzanoa Vigil

Prison Advisor

International Committee of the Red Cross- Col

Álvaro Toledo

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Cristina Pardo Schlesinger

Vice President

Colombian Constitutional Court

Catalina Gutierrez

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Marcela Gutiérrez Quevedo

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Juan Muelas

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Luciano Vigoni

General Manager of Nueva Oportunidad

in Secretariat of Human Development and Habitat

of the Municipality of Rosario- Argentina

 

Carol Contreras

Library and History Project

Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Daniella Escallón Vicaría

Restorative Juvenile Justice Expert -UNODC- Colombia

 

We invite you to register for this congress by clicking here

We look forward to seeing you.