Alternative justice as a human right

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of alternative justice as a human right of individuals, recognized in articles 1 and 17 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States-EUM, exposing its antecedents and justifying it as a human right, criticizing the lack of programs or institutional public policies to publicize the existence of the various methods of this justice for conflict resolution. Likewise, it is identified as access to it, it guarantees the processes of social, cultural and judicial transformation in which a culture of peace and harmony prevails, based on processes of integration, participation and citizen inclusion in institutions, respecting and protecting the dignity of every individual. The methodology used was the deductive method. From the general to the particular, the doctrine, legislation and interpretation criteria published by the Judicial Branch of the Federation related to this topic were reviewed, using a documentary research technique appropriate for this work. This made it possible to identify the scope of the culture of peace based on the substantive application of alternative justice from a jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional standpoint, the importance of the professionalization of the facilitator, the need to implement education for the re-composition of the justice system in Mexico from various spheres, as well as to consider the educational training of alternative mechanisms to address problems in various spheres such as environmental, school, commercial, punishment and labor, among others.