Pan-Decolonial Reparations Conference 2026

The question of reparations in a Shifting World Order

Date: April 18th, 2026
Location: Buurtcentrum De Horizon, Hembrugstraat 156, 1013 XC Amsterdam
Time: 11:00-18:00  (doors open 10:30) followed by dinner 18:00–20:00 (optional) 
Sign up here: registration link

On April 18th, 2026, Aralez organizes the Pan-Decolonial Reparations Conference 2026 — a gathering of activists, scholars, organizers and community leaders committed to building concrete strategies for reparations and self-determination in a rapidly shifting global order.

As imperial power realigns and international law increasingly reveals its limits, urgent questions emerge:

  •  Who are reparations addressed to in a world structured by colonial power?
  • What does accountability look like when global institutions fail?
  • And how do we build real pathways toward justice and reparations from the ground up?

Inspired by the spirit of Bandung (1955), this year’s conference focuses not only on analysis — but on strategy both in theory and practice, and is build upon the Pan-Decolonial Reparations Manifesto.

Program:
Walk-in and registration: 10:30-11:00
Plenary session: 11:00-12:45 including opening ceremony

What Would Reparations Actually Look Like — and How Do We Get There?

We begin by situating reparations within the changing international framework:

  • The erosion of international law
  • The tension between anti-imperial struggle and global institutions
  • The appropriation of UN frameworks by Global South movements

The central plenary question:

What does reparations look like in a shifting world order — and what strategies can bring them into being?

Themes include:

  • Self-determination beyond NATO and Western hegemony
  • The limits and possibilities of international law
  • Accountability in a colonial world order
  • Reparations as structural transformation, not symbolic gestures

Lunch Break 12:45-13:45

Building Practices & Strategies of Reparations

Workshops round number 1 – 13:45-15:15
Break 15:15-15:30
Workshop round number 2 – 15:30-17:00

This year’s workshops focus explicitly on strategy:
How do we organize toward reparations under current geopolitical conditions?

Topics include:

Reparations in Community & Intergenerational Trauma
Healing, resistance and collective restoration

Grassroots Litigation & Movement Partnerships
How community organizing and legal strategies can reinforce each other

Museums as Tools for Reparations
Memory, narrative and institutional transformation

Political Strategy & Lobbying
How do we put the right people in power? What is our strategy toward the state?

Workshops are limited in size and selected upon registration.

Collective Strategy Session 17:00-18:00

In the late afternoon, we shift from discussion to collective imagination and practice.

Through collective drawing, readings and shared reflection, we ask:

  • What infrastructures of reparations do we need?
  • What resources can we share?
  • What practices must we build across movements?

Dinner & Informal Gathering 18:00-20:00

We close the day with shared food, drinks and music — continuing conversations and strengthening alliances.


Sign up here: registration link

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