TIMELINE

2025-2028

In the short term, through December 2028, the focus is on reckoning and visibility. The Forum is building a global network of participating communities, launching digital and communications infrastructure, and shaping a coordinated intervention into the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings in 2026 and 2028, where the issue of slavery and reparations is expected to be formally addressed. The Forum aims to expand the reparations agenda beyond slavery to include the full spectrum of imperial harm: economic extraction, epistemic and spiritual violence, racialised governance, border regimes, and ecological destruction. The Forum will also secure funding and partnerships for sustainability during this time.

to 2036

In the medium term, through 2036, the focus is on repair and consolidation. In doing so, the Forum aligns with the African Union Decade of Reparations. It will build archives of testimony, memory, and artistic work, and embed truth-telling practices into education, museums, policy spaces, and public culture. Its outputs will be collaborative and pedagogical, with the aim of deepening global solidarity networks and connecting movements for climate, racial, gender, and economic justice.

beyond

In the long term, beyond 2036, the focus is on transformation and redistribution. The Forum aims to institutionalise a people’s infrastructure for historical justice: an enduring network linking communities, archives, and movements. It supports reparations as structural transformation: the redistribution of wealth, land, and epistemic authority. It contributes to reimagining governance, economy, and development around interdependence, care, and planetary repair. It cultivates future generations of truth-tellers and reparative leaders.