Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt

Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt is Associate Professor at the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP, USA) and Professor of Criminal Procedure at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP, Brazil). She serves as Book Review Editor for The International Journal of Restorative Justice and is a member of the Gender-Based Violence Working Group of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. She is also part of the Peace Culture and Restorative Justice Steering Committee of the Municipality of Recife (Brazil).

Fernanda has collaborated with the United Nations on several occasions, including as an expert reviewer of the most recent edition of the United Nations Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes and as a Portuguese-language specialist for the translation of the Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence modules of the Education for Justice initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Her research focuses on restorative justice, victimology, and gendered violence. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters published in Brazil and internationally. Her book The Role of Community in Restorative Justice (Routledge, 2015), which builds on the DPhil thesis she completed at the Centre for Criminology, explores the meanings and challenges of community participation in restorative practices. She is co-editor of the Handbook on Methods in Restorative Justice Research (Brill, 2025), co-editor of the forthcoming Latin America volume of the International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice (Brill, 2026), and co-author of Gendered Violence and Restorative Justice (Routledge, 2026).

Fernanda holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and a DPhil in Criminology from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).