Philosophy

Transformative Justice as a tool for change.

What is Transformative Justice?

Transformative Justice is a tool that creates spaces of responsibility and accountability, offering support to survivors of incidents of violence or discrimination and promoting genuinely safe environments.
This process can be applied in workplace or organisational settings when workers report incidents or dynamics that cause them distress, making it possible to repair harm and foster both personal and collective change.

What does it involve?

This approach is based on:
• Active listening to the parties involved and, where possible and desired, between them.
• Creation of working groups that include both the victim and the person who caused the harm.
• Search for collective solutions that ensure harm is repaired.
• Taking responsibility by those who have caused harm.
• Collective and structural transformation, addressing the power dynamics that sustain the issues at hand.

What makes the difference?

Unlike other conflict-management methods, Transformative Justice:
• Integrates a non-punitive gender perspective, developing inclusive and transformative processes.
• Considers gender relations to be key in organisational conflicts, as well as other intersectional issues, and works directly on them in order to achieve sustainable solutions.
• Goes beyond approaches such as restorative justice, focusing not only on repairing harm, but also on transforming the structures and institutions that shape behaviour.
Our actions combine analysis, advice and training, both in legal terms and from a gender perspective.

Where does this approach come from?

Transformative Justice emerges from the debate driven by recent feminist mobilisations, which call for a deeper examination of the structures of power and patriarchal domination that sustain violence and discrimination.
This approach moves beyond a view centred on male perpetrators and female victims, questioning the transformative effectiveness of punishment. From anti-punitive feminisms, it is argued that in order to move towards a post-violent society, a profound structural change is needed, aimed at real equality. Although this process may require more time, it is the path towards lasting and effective transformation.