2023-08-15 12:02:14
The decision was made by the Directorate for Alternative Conflict Resolution (Dirac), attached to the Court supreme justice, four months after that same entity renewed the accreditation of the UCA Mediation Center. The measure, signed by the general director of Dirac, María Amanda Castellón Tiffer, also comes five days after the Nicaraguan authorities will freeze bank accounts of that Jesuit University, in the midst of the friction between the Government headed by Daniel Ortega and the Nicaraguan Catholic Church.
“The Mediation Center of the UCA is disabled to administer mediation as an alternative method of conflict resolution,” says the resolution, which annuls said center from the list of accredited Mediation Centers and from the records of the National Coordination of Attention to Centers. Dirac Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods Administrators.
The entity made this decision based on article 38 of the General Regulations of the Directorate for Alternate Conflict Resolution, which establishes different reasons for revoking or canceling a Mediation Center, including “failure to comply with the obligations referred to in the Mediation Law and Arbitration”.
Also “by communication received by the Dirac in which it is reported that by sanction of the competent authority, the administrative staff and/or the neutrals of the Center are involved in the commission of illegal acts or that violate public order, or for carrying out activities that do not correspond to the purposes for which they were constituted”.
Dirac indicated that from now on “it has no responsibility whatsoever regarding the actions or provision of services provided by the UCA Mediation Center, nor regarding its relations with third parties or users who require or require its services” .
More than half a century of experience
The UCA, for its part, reported that its 54-year-old legal firm will not be administering mediation as an alternative method of conflict resolution. “The other services offered by the law firm will continue to be attended normally at the usual time,” he added. The Jesuit university was the scene of dozens of marches against the Ortega government, in the framework of the crisis that Nicaragua has been going through since April 2018.
Also on May 30, 2018, it opened its doors to thousands of students who sought refuge after participating in a massive opposition march in Managua, called “The mother of all marches”, which ended up bathed in blood, just after Ortega sentenced in a speech before his followers that “Nicaragua belongs to all of us and we all stay here.”
In addition, it hosted the exhibition “Love and Do not Forget: Museum of Memory against Impunity”, promoted by the Association of Mothers of April (AMA), which seeks to remember those who fell during the anti-government demonstrations in Nicaragua.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second along with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president, with her main contenders in prison.
Fuente: dw.com
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