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Reparations Initiative

Repair and historical justice, treated with the seriousness they deserve — rigorous research, careful policy work, principled advocacy, and sustained dialogue.

Stream 01

Research

Historical, legal, and economic scholarship — documenting harms, quantifying legacies, and studying repair mechanisms across contexts.

Stream 02

Policy

Policy frameworks and briefs for governments and regional bodies engaging reparative justice agendas.

Stream 03

Advocacy

Principled public engagement, grounded in evidence, coordinated with movements and institutions already leading this work.

Stream 04

Dialogue

Convenings that hold difficult conversations well — across regions, generations, and institutions, South and North.

Why GPS

Reparations sits at the exact intersection GPS is built for: scholarship that must reach policy, memory that must meet institutions, and a conversation that spans Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the diasporas. The initiative draws on the Knowledge pillar for research, the Policy pillar for government engagement, and the Caribbean hub in Martinique for regional grounding.

The program of work — research consortium, first policy outputs, and dialogue series — is being scoped with partners through 2026–27.

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Photography — memorial site / archive research, Caribbean