Agenda
UK Reparations Conference 2025:
Delivering Justice
Through Repair
18.10.2025
09:00 - 10:00
REGISTRATION
at Front Desk
10:00 - 11:00
WELCOME & LIBATION
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LIBATION
Kojo Asare Bonsu (Global Afrikan Peoples Parliament)
CONFERENCE WELCOME
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Chair, APPG for Afrikan Reparations) | Debby Flack (Quakers in Britain) | Brian Royes (Campaign Manager, The Repair Campaign) | Jacqueline McKenzie (Partner, Leigh Day) | Daniel Noruwa (Research & Policy Lead, The Ubele Initiative) | Eleanor Shearer (Policy Lead, Common Wealth) | Robin Rue Simmons (Executive Coordinator, Global Circle for Reparations and Healing)
11:00 - 12:15
OPENING PLENARY: ‘The Politics of Reparations and Pan-Africanism’
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Onyekachi Wambu (Special Projects Director, AFFORD) | Esther Xosei (Executive Director, Stop The Maangamizi) | P. L. O. Lumumba (Professor of Law, Pan-Africanist) | Jeremy Corbyn MP (Peace and Justice Project) | Diane Abbott MP (Mother of the House of Commons) | Marcus Ryder (Co-author, ‘The Big Payback’) | Councillor Scott Ainslie (Lambeth Green Party Councillor)
Password: 320665
12:15 - 13:30
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
FROM DISPLAY TO DIGNITY: Mobilising the Diaspora to Lay our Ancestors to Rest
THE LIGHT
Within the wider framework of the reparations movement, this panel offers an in-depth examination of one of its core dimensions: the restitution of stolen artefacts, cultural treasures, human remains, and property, including land, as well as the repatriation of archives to their rightful custodians.
Chair: Iben Bo (Co-Author, ‘Laying Ancestors to Rest Report’, AFFORD)
Dan Hicks (Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford) | Elsie Owusu OBE RA (Architect & Principal) | Rudo Sithole (African Museums & Heritage Restitution) | Dr Lennon Mhishi (University of British Columbia) | Connie Bell (Decolonising The Archive) | Graham Campbell (SNP Councillor)
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RELEARNING THE PAST, REWRITING THE FUTURE: Education as Reparative Justice
BENJAMIN LAY 1 & 2
Education can serve as both a remedy for ignorance and a driving force for liberation, providing a deeper insight into the reparations movement. This session will look at how we can fully unlock the potential of education to provide a sound knowledge base about enslavement and colonialism.
Chair: Sydni Scott (Reparations Scholar, University of Oxford)
Robin Walker (Author & Educator) | Dr Nicola Frith (Scholar of Slavery & Memory, University of Edinburgh) | Dr Wanda Wyporska (CEO, Black Cultural Archives) | Professor Gus John (Equity & Human Rights Campaigner) | Annabelle Woghiren (Activist & Educator) | Kehinde Andrews (Professor of Black Studies, Birmingham City University) | Lavinya Stennett (Founder, The Black Curriculum)
Password: 659013
LEGAL STRATEGIES FOR REPAIR: Accountability, Precedent & Progress
BENJAMIN LAY 3
This session explores the multiple legal pathways available for advancing reparatory justice - from litigation and parliamentary inquiries to international human rights frameworks and community-led accountability processes.
Chair: Esther Xosei (Chair, Stop The Maangamizi Campaign)
Jacqueline McKenzie (Partner, Leigh Day) | Nandiuasora Mazeingo (Chairperson, Ovaherero Genocide Foundation) | Dr Nora Wittmann (Pan-African legal scholar) | Gretchen Rohr (Independent Reparations Strategist and Diasporic Advisor, Reform Initiatives) | Clive Baldwin (Senior Legal Advisor, Human Rights Watch) | Corinne Elle (PARISC)
Password: 068031
HOW TO WIN THE DEBATE ON CARIBBEAN REPARATIONS
with the Repair Campaign
WALDO WILLIAMS
Join historian and cultural theorist Kayne Kawasaki for a lively mock debate exploring the nuances and real-world questions surrounding Caribbean reparative justice. Engage, challenge ideas, and help shape the conversation on repair.
Chair: Kayne Kawasaki
13:30 - 14:30
LUNCH
14:30 - 15:45
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
RACIAL JUSTICE: Unity in Shared History & Justice
THE LIGHT
This panel will explore racial justice through the lens of reparations, considering the work currently being undertaken by organisations—and that which still needs to be done—to address these injustices.
Chair: Lee Jasper (Alliance for Police Accountability)
Nels Abbey (Author and commentator) | Mel Mullings (Assistant Secretary, RMT Black Solidarity Committee) | Zita Holbourne (National Chair and Co-founder, BARAC UK) | Kayza Rose (Co-founder and organiser, BLM UK) | Councillor Jacqueline Burnett (Labour Councillor, ASPE Southern Chair) | Nadine White (Journalist and Filmmaker)
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DECOLONISING INSTITUTIONS & NGOs: Confronting Historical Realities to Support Restoration
BENJAMIN LAY 1 & 2
This discussion seeks to unpack the complex task of addressing historical wrongs within both faith institutions and the aid sector, while putting forward practical policy recommendations for achieving justice and accountability.
Chair: Dawn Butler MP (Chair)
Charmaine Simpson (Church Commissioners for England) | Sheeba Levi-Stewart (Global Afrikan Congress, Ethiopian World Federation) | Joseph Harker ( Co-founder, ‘Legacies of Enslavement’ programme, The Guardian) | Nonhlanhla Makuyana (Community Economist) | Tatianna Ennin (Reparations Programme Advisor, Christian Aid)
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ECONOMIC REPAIR & CLIMATE JUSTICE for a Just Transition
BENJAMIN LAY 3
Former colonies, often rich in natural resources yet historically exploited through extractive and unjust systems, now face a complex set of interlinked challenges. This panel will explore ways to create greater equity in responding to the global climate crisis, emphasising the interconnection between reparatory justice and environmental justice.
Chair: Priya Lukka (Political Economist)
Eleanor Shearer (Policy Lead, Common Wealth) | Robert Beckford (Theologian and Climate Justice Advocate) | Tyrone Scott (Greens of Colour) | Harj Narulla (Doughty Street Chambers) | Kofi Klu (Chief Executive Commissioner, PANAFRIINDABA) | Makmid Kamara (Founder, Reform Initiative)
Password: 246059
HEALING: Reparations and Building a Global Healing Circle
HILDA CLARK
This panel explores how processes of repair extend beyond legal and economic redress to encompass emotional, psychological, and communal healing. By framing reparations as both a moral and healing imperative, this session seeks to imagine what a “global healing circle” might look like in practice: a space that acknowledges historical trauma, centers truth-telling, and promotes mutual restoration as a foundation for lasting justice and peace.
Chair: Onyekachi Wambu (Director Special Projects, AFFORD)
Klarke Stricklen (Apologies Directory & Doctoral Student, Oxford University) | Dr Ahmed Bugre (Executive Coordinator Global Circle for Reparations and Healing) | Rameri Moukam, (Psychotherapist and Founder and clinical director of Pattigift Therapy CIC)
15:45 - 15:55
BREAK
15:55 - 16:20
REFLECTIONS
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Reflections from conference participants.
16:20 - 16:40
CLOSING PLENARY: ‘International Reparations Movements’
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With contributions from Professor Verene Shepherd (Vice-Chair, CARICOM and Vice-Chair, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) and Demeke Mekonnen (President of the Global Black, Centre, Ethiopia).