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Esther Pascual
Esther Pascual Rodríguez is the undergraduate director of the degree in criminology at the University Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid. She joined higher education six years ago and makes it compatible with her law practice (started in 2001) and with her work in mediation (ongoing since 2005) in coordination with the Association for Mediation and Peace-Making of Madrid. This association pioneered programmes for penitentiary and penal mediation, designing pilot programmes that have become widespread in Spain. She is the author of various publications on sentencing and restorative justice. One especially important book of hers on this topic is Los ojos del otro: Los encuentros restaurativos entre víctimas y ex miembros de ETA (Editorial Sal Terrae, 2013), a book that narrates the overwhelmingly powerful, humane and transformative experience that those particular encounters embody from the theoretical perspective of the facilitator. Esther participated in the restorative justice encounters between victims and former members of ETA as a mediator and as the coordinator of the project when other facilitators joined the team, as well as being the author of the intervention protocols that were put in place. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (2012), with a thesis on mediation titled ‘La mediación en el sistema penal: Propuestas para un modelo reparador, humano y garantista’. Esther also trains mediators and considers herself to be a life-long apprentice.
Contact: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Carretera Pozuelo, km 1800, 28223 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.