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Posted: Tuesday 4 March, 2025 at 12:03 PM

The UWI's Centre for Reparations Research Launches International Debate Competition

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By: The UWI, Press Release

    The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Friday, February 28,2025 — The Centre for Reparations Research (CRR) at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has launched an International Reparation Debate Competition to engage secondary schools regionally and internationally in reparatory justice discussions. The competition begins officially on Friday, March 10 and runs until April 2025. The debates will be streamed live on the CRR’s YouTube channel.

     

    Twenty-four schools from the Bahamas, Curaçao, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom are among the first participants in this competition. Engaging secondary-level students in structured debates will enhance their historical understanding and stimulate meaningful conversations within families, communities, schools, and the broader public discourse.

     

    Can you apologise for a wrongful act by an ancestor? Should reparations be paid to governments? How do we engage youth on matters of reparatory justice? These and more are questions that the CRR is tackling as it strategically engages the next generation.

     

    Most importantly, the debating competition will seek to achieve a critical facet of the CRR's strategic plan to mainstream reparation from street to stage. With support from Caribbean governments and expanding allies in the Global North, this intervention is broad-based. It will use debate as a strategy for reparatory justice education and outreach.

     

    As debates on reparatory justice for peoples of African descent sway from conservative to liberal in orientation, there is a need for strategic intervention. The international debate has thus far centred on economic aspects, with former colonisers such as Britain advancing anti-justice sentiments and ultimately resisting repair in the form of apologies or compensation.

     

    The CRR is pleased to have partners and collaborators, including the CARICOM Reparation Commission, The Repair Campaign, Jamaica Association for Debating and Empowerment, The UWI Press, PJ Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, the Wilberforce Institute - UK, among others.

     

    Through this competition, the CRR will harness youth's intellectual and communicative capabilities to address pivotal issues of reparation and Pan-Africanism. By fostering an environment of rigorous debate and informed discourse, the competition will promote historical awareness and contribute to meaningful advocacy for African-descended communities in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.

     

    The complete list of competing schools are as follows:

     

    BAHAMAS

     

    CV Bethel Senior High school

     

    Club Bethel

     

    GUAYANA

     

    Queen’s College

     

    JAMAICA

     

    Machester High School

     

    Glenmuir Hight School

     

    Campion College Jamaica

     

    York castle High School

     

    Hampton School

     

    Bishop Gibson High School for Girls

     

    Montego Bay High

     

    Jonathan Grant High

     

    Holy Childhood High School

     

    Maggoty High School

     

    Clarendon College

     

    deCarteret College

     

    SURINAME

     

    Kolegio Prof Dr Alejandro Paula

     

    TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

     

    St Joseph’s Convent Port of Spain

     

    Presentation College Chaguanas

     

    Bishop’s High School Tobago

     

    San Fernando East Secondary school

     

    Barrackpore West Secondary School

     

    Arima North Secondary

     

    Pleasantville Secondary School

     

    UNITED KINGDOM

     

    Rawlins Academy

     

    For inquiries or further information about the competition and launch, please contact the Centre for Reparations Research at reparation.research@uwimona.edu.jm.

     

     

     


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