On August 18th the Permanent Center for Consensual Methods of Conflict Resolution (NUPEMEC) in partnership with the Judicial Center for Settlement of Conflicts and Citizenship (CEJUSCs) organized the lecture Reflections on Mediation and Domestic Violence, with the presentation of study by Dr. Eyleen Marenco, Justice Promoter of the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ), Master in Legal and Political Sciences, Conflict Mediator of MPRJ and post-graduate student of the Gender and Law Course (EMERJ).
Eyleen makes an analysis of a very controversial issue and discusses the need for a gender perspective to think about the possibility or not of mediation in cases of domestic and family violence against women.
“Domestic violence, understood as true gender violence, which exists because of the hierarchy of social roles imposed on men and women in society, has its greatest and most pernicious expression, because it annuls the very identity of the woman, in the psychological violence modality, whose criminal typification is still very recent, and has a typology that is always little studied, because it is a ‘clean’ violence, that is, one that does not appear easily.”
According to Eyleen, it is a mistake to think that domestic violence only exists if there is a procedure in the Domestic Violence Court, where the prohibition of mediation and other self-compositive practices is peaceful, and that it can be present in a simple action of maintenance to minor children in a family court or in a criminal complaint of slander in the Special Criminal Court, areas in which no deeper reflection on the possibility of revictimization of women is made.
Eyleen understands that there are cases of family violence that can be object of self-compositive practices, as long as the asymmetry and domination of women are ruled out. Nevertheless, the training of all law operators with a gender focus, as determined by the guidelines of the Inter-American System of Human Rights (SIDH), is imperative. It is also important, according to her, that correct triage be carried out in the derivation of cases, and that ‘safety filters’ be created for the implementation of any self-compositive practice.
Mariana Barsted was present at this event, representing CEPIA.
