Who We Are
The Global Circle for Reparations and Healing (GCRH) is a dynamic collaborative network of organizations and practitioners united in their commitment to reparatory justice and racial healing throughout Global Africa. As a network that holds ancestral wisdom, lived experience, and political clarity at its core, the GCRH aims to build sustainable and regenerative structures that support truth-telling, community and individual healing and repair, and systemic transformation.
History
In 2021, twenty-three organizations were selected by the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation as part of its Equitable Recovery Grant Initiative. Believing in the utmost importance of capitalizing on this moment, the cohort, calling themselves the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing (GCRH), began to meet regularly to develop strategies to amplify and support each other’s work. To that end, the Global Circle believed it imperative for reparations advocates, scholars, artists, and activists from around the world to come together to dialogue, learn from each other, and to strengthen opportunities for collective action to advance a reparations and healing agenda worldwide.
Mission
The Global Circle for Reparations and Healing (GCRH) is a dynamic collaborative network of organizations and practitioners working to achieve reparatory justice and racial healing throughout Global Africa
Vision
The vision of the GCRH is a healed and self-determined Pan-African world where all people of African descent (ancestry) live in dignity and unity, free from the legacies of enslavement and colonialism, with reparatory justice and collective healing fully realized.
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Core Values
The Global Circle for Reparations and Healing (GCRH) is guided by a set of foundational values that reflect our commitment to justice, healing, and collective care. These values shape our relationships, decision-making, and strategic actions:
– Trust & Loyalty – We foster trust through transparency and uphold loyalty to our communities and shared mission.
– Integrity – We act with honesty, truthfulness, and clarity in all ourengagements.
– Compassion & Safety – We prioritize care, emotional safety, and the well-being of all participants.
– Authenticity & Truth – We honor lived experiences and speak truth to power with courage and clarity.
– Respect & Accountability – We respect diverse traditions and hold ourselves accountable to our values and communities.
– Commitment – We remain steadfast in our pursuit of reparatory justice and healing.
– Purposeful Engagement – We act with intention, passion, and good faith.
– Community – We center collective wisdom, mutual support, and shared responsibility.
Current
Recognizing the importance of reparations and healing as a global imperative, we, the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing are charging the Global African Reparations Movement to build upon the legacies established by social movements that produced outcomes such as the 1993 Abuja Proclamation and the 2001 Durban Declaration and Program of Action. While we are opposed to past colonialism, apartheid and slavery, we are also opposed to all current and contemporary forms of colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia and exploitation. We condemn the outright use of violence and terror designed to extract, exploit and advance the system of plunder.
The Global Circle for Reparations and Healing (GCRH) is guided by a set of foundational values that reflect our commitment to justice, healing, and collective care. These values shape our relationships, decision-making, and strategic actions:
– Trust & Loyalty – We foster trust through transparency and uphold loyalty to our communities and shared mission.
– Integrity – We act with honesty, truthfulness, and clarity in all ourengagements.
– Compassion & Safety – We prioritize care, emotional safety, and the well-being of all participants.
– Authenticity & Truth – We honor lived experiences and speak truth to power with courage and clarity.
– Respect & Accountability – We respect diverse traditions and hold ourselves accountable to our values and communities.
– Commitment – We remain steadfast in our pursuit of reparatory justice and healing.
– Purposeful Engagement – We act with intention, passion, and good faith.
– Community – We center collective wisdom, mutual support, and shared responsibility.
Recognizing the importance of reparations and healing as a global imperative, we, the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing are charging the Global African Reparations Movement to build upon the legacies established by social movements that produced outcomes such as the 1993 Abuja Proclamation and the 2001 Durban Declaration and Program of Action. While we are opposed to past colonialism, apartheid and slavery, we are also opposed to all current and contemporary forms of colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia and exploitation. We condemn the outright use of violence and terror designed to extract, exploit and advance the system of plunder.
We affirm the thrust of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action in declaring that massive harms committed by various European governments, institutions, corporations and families equated to crimes against African humanity. That the crimes of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, colonialism, apartheid and neocolonialism and the systems, structures and institutions established to perpetuate these harms have left a negative injurious legacy that impacts every aspect of the lives of people of African descent around the world, in the present day and stymies the capacity to be fully self-determining and accorded the rights owed by virtue of being human. We further hold that there is both a moral and legal obligation of the perpetrators of the crimes to engage in full reparations wherever the crimes were committed and the legacies persist.
Our vision for Black people is expansionary and inclusive. We value the lives of Africans globally. We do not discriminate nor differentiate value of our Blackness based on geography, language, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender identity, religion or spiritual tradition. Our common bond is our belief in the full human rights and dignity of Black people around the world. We espouse a Pan-African vision that acknowledges a common bond upon which we can build relationships that allow us to work collectively toward our liberation and advance the cause of reparative justice and collective healing.
Recognizing the importance of reparations and healing as a global imperative, we, the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing are charging the Global African Reparations Movement to build upon the legacies established by social movements that produced outcomes such as the 1993 Abuja Proclamation and the 2001 Durban Declaration and Program of Action. While we are opposed to past colonialism, apartheid and slavery, we are also opposed to all current and contemporary forms of colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia and exploitation. We condemn the outright use of violence and terror designed to extract, exploit and advance the system of plunder.
We affirm the thrust of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action in declaring that massive harms committed by various European governments, institutions, corporations and families equated to crimes against African humanity. That the crimes of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, colonialism, apartheid and neocolonialism and the systems, structures and institutions established to perpetuate these harms have left a negative injurious legacy that impacts every aspect of the lives of people of African descent around the world, in the present day and stymies the capacity to be fully self-determining and accorded the rights owed by virtue of being human. We further hold that there is both a moral and legal obligation of the perpetrators of the crimes to engage in full reparations wherever the crimes were committed and the legacies persist.
Our vision for Black people is expansionary and inclusive. We value the lives of Africans globally. We do not discriminate nor differentiate value of our Blackness based on geography, language, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender identity, religion or spiritual tradition. Our common bond is our belief in the full human rights and dignity of Black people around the world. We espouse a Pan-African vision that acknowledges a common bond upon which we can build relationships that allow us to work collectively toward our liberation and advance the cause of reparative justice and collective healing.