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A panel event to discuss various forms of reparations for historical harms.

• March 20, 2024
• 12:30pm - 1:45pm
• Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), CASE E390

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How do we repair harm, when the harm is on a national scale? 

For the March 2024 Difficult Dialogue topic, we will consider how various nations have provided reparations for systemic harm and how we can hold nations, governments, and communities accountable for it. 

While the US government has made reparations to Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, there are still some groups that have not received any form of restitution, such as to enslaved people taken from African nations or to Indigenous nations for stolen land. Other countries have provided restitution for genocide, such as the German government and businesses to survivors of the Holocaust and the Rwandan government to Tutsi survivors of the 1994 genocide. Our panelists will discuss how we as individuals can encourage and support various types of reparations for harmed communities. For additional reading materials on these topics, visit the CU Libraries Resource Guide:

Questions our panelists will consider:

1. How do we hold nations, governments, and communities accountable for systemic harm?
2. How do individuals engage on this scale with governments to provide restitution to groups harmed? 
3. Closer to home, how do we at CU Boulder contend with land acknowledgments that address settler-colonialism when we are not giving back land?