Decolonial Healing Justice

Our work under Decolonial Justice recognizes that extant transitional justice mechanisms are rooted in structural and systemic violence. Carceral, punitive, and retributive justice are seen as "zero-sum destinations" that do not account for community healing. In responding to mass atrocities either by amnesty for peace, or by locking away perpetrators or sentencing perpetrators to death, transitional justice seldom centers the agency of those affected by the mass atrocities. Transitional justice mechanisms are created and operated by the same systems that made the mass atrocity possible in the first place, leaving little to no room for the transformation of systemic and structural factors. Our approach to decolonial justice looks at learning from the past, drawing from decolonial approaches including power and historical analyses and indigenous paths to conciliation, and imagining futures while centering community healing. This section comprises our research and writing on decolonial justice. 
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