Peace Justice
The Justices of Peace are citizens elected by vote in the community they represent, according to the electoral districts defined by Municipal Councils, who have the role of conciliating and mediating in the solution of existing conflicts among members of the community. Elected once every five years, they are assigned by the Municipal Mayor. The Justices of Peace make decisions regarding the solution of conflicts under the principle of equity and fundamentally reflecting the values of the community to which they belong. The figure of the Justices of Peace began to function in the year 2000 under the mandate of the Peace Justice Department.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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