Speaker Series
Voices from Bolivia: Experiences in Community Justice
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Description
Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kate Centellas and Dr. Miguel Centellas, we are pleased that Ole Miss will be hosting a group of visiting Bolivian community justice scholars and activists on Tuesday, January 24th. Community justice in Bolivia is a legal system whereby indigenous communities control the definition, prosecution, and punishment of crimes. The Bolivian constitution recognizes community justice as just as legitimate and lawful as the traditional (Western) legal system. Furthermore, the model of justice in many indigenous communities tends to be community based, not an individualistic one. The people visiting campus are scholars enrolled in a community justice program at UMSA, the largest Bolivian university, as well as activists and political figures in their (generally rural) home communities.
Publication Date
1-24-2012
Relational Format
archival material
Recommended Citation
Centellas, Kate and Centellas, Miguel, "Voices from Bolivia: Experiences in Community Justice" (2012). Speaker Series. 43.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/croft_spe/43