Memorial for Peach and Justice in Montgomery Alabama with several plaques hanging from the ceiling

Restorative Justice

How can we find justice and accountability through truth and reconciliation?

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How can societies address past harms? How can they foster truth-telling and enable reconciliation?

The Ash Center, through efforts like the Global Processes of Justice, Truth–Telling and Healing Research Initiative at the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, is helping to uncover what works — and what doesn’t — in achieving restorative justice.

We encourage you to explore our latest events, research, and writing below.


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Representative Barbara Lee on the Imperative of Reparative Justice

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Representative Barbara Lee on the Imperative of Reparative Justice

At the Global Justice, Truth-Telling, and Healing Symposium, Lee speaks on how we can interrupt the cycle of inaction when it comes to reparative justice in the United States.

Getting at the Root: Perspectives on Global Justice, Truth Telling and Accountability
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Getting at the Root: Perspectives on Global Justice, Truth Telling and Accountability

The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and the Carr Center for Human Rights hosted a discussion with scholars studying processes and practices of global truth telling, repair, and justice from the fields of law, government, and political science.

Change Can’t Wait: A Justice and Equity Agenda For Boston’s Black and Brown Communities
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Change Can’t Wait: A Justice and Equity Agenda For Boston’s Black and Brown Communities

The Ash Center, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center for Public Leadership, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston hosted a discussion focusing on urgent issues—from economic and climate justice to immigration and mass incarceration —that the next Mayor of Boston must address to rectify structural inequities and support Black and Brown communities.

Police Violence, Memory, and Mobilization in Brazil
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Police Violence, Memory, and Mobilization in Brazil

The Ash Center’s event featured members of Mães de Maio (Mothers of May), a collective of mothers whose children were killed by police in May 2006 in one of the largest police massacres in Brazilian history.