Reparations for Global Equity

This Lab seeks to incubate and promote reparatory justice knowledge production through research, film production and public education. It builds on existing work on reparatory justice education undertaken with the Atlantic Institute through a 3-part webinar series called Reparatory Futures.

Despite slavery, racism, and colonialism being central to the past and present global systems of power, these issues are often relegated to the bottom of global knowledge production. This translates into a lack of appreciation of the importance of identifying the global repercussions, not only in terms of wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few but also how systemic inequalities have been a central part of interconnected webs of institutions, global partnerships, global agreements and decisions of what are the most pressing global issues and how these are conceptualised. Identifying and taking concrete actions towards repairing the damage brought about by past and ongoing colonial relations of power is one of the most pressing yet neglected global issues of our time.

The main objective of this Lab, therefore, is to initiate a process of knowledge building that demonstrates how reparatory justice could contribute to achieving global equity.