Restorative Walk: Healing Through Interaction With Abuser Guest: Gemma Varona

My guest Gemma Varona is an academic researcher at the University of the Basque Country.

Gemma describes a very interesting and ground-breaking concept – ‘restorative walking’ in great detail and explains how victims of political violence or harmed persons from environmental and animal rights cases in search of justice might choose this process moving forwards. She explains the importance of giving people from different groups (i.e people with disabilities, elderly people, children and young adults) a choice in how and where they choose to seek justice and re-build relationships.

She also touches on the 2017 Canadian documentary film ‘A Better Man’ where a survivor of domestic abuse meets with the man who abused her.