Chiara Palazzolo

Chiara Palazzolo is a researcher at the Center for Virtues and Values at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid.

She also works with the Faculty of International Relations. She holds a doctorate in Philosophy from the universities of Rome Tor Vergata and Roma Tre, after a bachelor’s and master’s in Philosophy at the University of Parma, where she also obtained a diploma in operatic singing from the Conservatory.

Her most recent work focuses on virtue ethics, the philosophy of forgiveness and restorative justice, examining the moral value of reconciliation and of repairing harm in personal and social healing. Her publications include the volume Musik als Berufung (Brill) on the professional ethics of the classical musician, and the article “After Harm: The Virtue of Forgiveness in Restorative Justice” in the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has also held research positions at the University of Glasgow and the University of Maryland.

From 2015 to 2018 she volunteered with the chaplaincy of Parma prison, supporting people’s reintegration at the end of their sentence.