Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: reparations

'The university is raising £20 million in reparations, an act that has been widely regarded as the first from an United Kingdom institution as regards "restorative justice." This money, to be raised and spent in the next coming 20 years, will be for research purposes in collaboration with the University of West Indies. It will be used on setting up and operating the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research.'

Scotland's Glasgow University on Friday launched a project to promote awareness of the effects of slavery, the first of its kind by a British university, a

'Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) conducted a National Symposium on Restorative Justice, inviting key stakeholders in the criminal justice system, other interested parties, and experts to share useful ideas and identify essential obstacles in the criminal justice system and its problem solving mechanisms. It is hoped that Restorative Justice can alleviate overcrowding in prisons and congestion in the court system, and effectively reform offenders so that they can return into society. It is hoped that it can empower and help victims, restore their well-being, ensure effective reparations and engage the community in assisting victims and offenders in reintegrating into the community.'

Thailand Institute of Justice hopes that Restorative Justice will prove to be the crucial tool needed to resolve issues of prison overcrowding and congestion in the court system and reintegration of victims and offenders into the community.

'But if Americans are now willing to entertain the notion of restorative justice for the legacy of institutional racism, slavery alone is the wrong place to focus. The damage to African Americans continued long after abolition in 1865. Efforts to subordinate and economically exploit black people extended through peonage, convict leasing, sharecropping, Jim Crow, redlined black ghettos and mass incarceration. The ideology of white supremacy, used to justify slavery, persists. Why should subsequent racist practices get a pass while we zoom in on outright bondage? Anti-black segregation lives on, and the current damage to slavery’s descendants is direct and measurable. In other words, reparations should repair what white supremacy still breaks. Atoning for the legacy of chattel slavery is simply not enough.'

Racial inequality flows as much from policies that came after abolition.

 

Reparations for slavery and Jim Crow are on the agenda of Congress. We should view these discussions less as reaching a settlement and more about repairing a broken relationship.