THE RIGHT FOUND IN CIRCLES OF CONFLICT: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE LIGHT OF DECOLONIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
Decoloniality. Restorative Justice. Punitive System. Intersectionality.
The research is about access to justice, the intertwining between restorative justice and anti-discrimination law, which, by considering especially the subjects affected by a certain norm, essentially involves the elaboration of new perspectives of interpretation and application of the principle of equality, as well as institutional mechanisms and public policies aimed at protecting vulnerable groups and minority majorities. Thus, this research sought to base itself on decolonial epistemology, which presupposes racialization in criminalization processes from the private strongholds of the manor house/slave quarters relations, as a means of guaranteeing the economic system at the time, permeating the organizational form of the State in the processes of transferring punitive practices from the private sphere to the public sphere, through criminalizing programming, and interpretative processes based on racist imagery, marks and symbols, which dominate subjectivism and structure the axes of oppression under the guise of law and legality. Therefore, as a methodological approach, in addition to the empirical investigation proposed by the research with interviews and listening sessions in Peacebuilding Circles, through participant observation, it was also necessary to conduct a bibliographic and documentary survey focused on the categories of analysis: Decoloniality, Intersectionality, Restorative Justice and Punitive System. In this way, it was possible to propose a decolonial conception of access to justice as a theoretical contribution to the defense of racial literacy, which is essential for the training and qualification of facilitators of Restorative Justice in Brazil.