My story and background

I am Diana Márquez. Above all, I see myself as a peacemaker of law and a facilitator of dialogue. I am a lawyer, notary and mediator specialised in Restorative Justice — but titles don't explain why I do what I do. My path did not begin in a classroom, but in the deep need to find meaning in the incomprehensible.

I am a survivor of child sexual abuse. From that wound, and after a long process of walking back through the pain, I understood that to heal we must take a quantum leap: to stop being defined by the crime we suffered and become protagonists of our own lives again. I learned first-hand that the response to conflict cannot be reduced to the spreadsheet of punishment, to hatred or to revenge — because violence only breeds more violence.

That conviction led me to join the disruptive path driven by the beloved judge Mario Juliano within Asociación Pensamiento Penal. After his passing in 2020, I took on the National Coordination of Víctimas por la Paz. There, we are those who consciously choose love, compassion and accountability over media-driven resentment and punitive slogans.

Today, from the leadership of the Argentine Society for Restorative Justice (SAJuR) and as secretary of the Liberté Workers' Cooperative —run by incarcerated people in Batán prison—, I work actively both inside and outside the walls. I firmly believe that security is not a police car or a sentence; security is coexistence. That is why I devote my life to creating careful spaces of listening where victims can voice their real needs, where offenders take on substantial responsibility, and where, one heart at a time, we can repair the social fabric.

Education

• Lawyer and Notary — National University of La Plata (UNLP), 1992
• Postgraduate in Property Law — University of Buenos Aires (UBA), 2001
• Pre-trial Mediator — Buenos Aires Province, 2012
• Specialist in Family Mediation — CIJUSO

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