our work
The Global Circle
GCRH
The work of the GCRH consists of actions within six strategic areas of the global reparations and healing movement. We call these areas our Operational Framework. To plan and achieve the goals within each area of action, the GCRH is led by a The Steering Committee and Working Group Leaders.
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, 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, and hopefully strengthen opportunities for collective action to advance reparations and healing agenda worldwide.
The Global Circle has developed an operational framework that will help the network achieve collectively developed objectives in 2023 and beyond. This operational framework consists of six working groups addressing key issue areas identified by the Global Circle:
01
Global Economic Structural Institutions Policy
02
Political Actors & Power Dynamics
03
Media & Narrative Building
04
Partnership & Movement- Building
05
Interreligious Actors (The Vatican, etc)
06
Inter and Intra- Community Healing
BELLAGIO CONVENING 15 KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Commitment to consolidate – bring our efforts together to align where possible to increase effectiveness and reduce redundancies
- Create a narrative of survival and development
- Clearly identify complicit parties (perpetrators)
- Commit to a process of healing the wounded
- Commit to dismantle anti-Black systems and processes
- Develop strategies and plans that create reparative systems, structures, and organizations
- Strengthen and build the capacity of organizations and formations leading reparations efforts
- Identify and assemble scholars and experts that can support with research, analysis, and strategy development
- Identify Heads of State with whom we can build our work at the international level
- Develop strategies to enlist non-African allies
- Engage faith institutions of all types to join in this work
- Enlist foundations and other private and public philanthropy to engage in this work
- Develop strategies for intergenerational engagement, particularly with a focus on engaging young people, increasing opportunities for intergenerational learning, dialogue, and collective action
- Develop a clear strategy for engaging media. Understanding the role of building a narrative around our collective work (particularly global work), sharpen the ways in which we engage the various forms of media (television, radio, print, digital, etc) in ways that advance our cause
- Determine the role of consensus-building especially considering the diversity of reparations advocacy groups, entities and individuals. Establish a core set of values that will underpin how we engage others
