Diana Degner (Tovar-Rojas) is a Colombian political scientist, peacebuilder, conflict transformation & restorative justice practitioner. She has studied and practiced human rights, international humanitarian law, dialogical, war-to-peace transitions, restorative justice processes, racial justice, trauma healing,\u00a0meditation and art-based embodied practice.\u00a0Due to her father’s kidnappings by the FARC guerrilla group, her personal, professional and spiritual journeys have been focused on discovering processes that transform violence into individual and collective healing and peace.<\/p>\n
In 2012, she coordinated S-CAR<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 PUJ<\/a> Field Experience project in Soacha, Colombia, where participants analyzed transitional justice process, in particular the Victims\u2019 Law. Then, interned with the Juvenile Probation Department<\/a> in Chicago, Illinois, were she discovered how restorative justice processes, in particular circles, re-story and restore lives of adolescents. From 2013-2015, worked for\u00a0UNICEF Colombia\u00a0assisting the design and elaboration process of their 2015-2019 Country Program Document (CPD) <\/a>and resource mobilization strategies for the programmatic areas.<\/p>\n