An approach to the psychosocial accompaniment from the lens of restorative justice of indirect victims of missing persons, in Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, around 100,000 cases of missing persons have been registered. In this research, a conceptual approach to psychosocial accompaniment is carried out, managing to establish a paradigm which has served as the basis for such intervention. In the absence of accurate investigations, the growing impunity of the perpetrators, and the lack of transparency in the investigative processes, a social organization has had to be woven, where the groups of victims are the main support networks, and not the ones provided by the Mexico’s criminal-justice institutions. Given this scenario, a psychosocial accompaniment is proposed, with a restorative approach, capable of expanding the range of possibilities to indirect victims by giving them an active role in their own recovery process, encouraging the active participation of the community, and so, activating the process of restoring peace, in Mexico.