Course Description
This course will help students understand the basics of restorative justice, reconciliation, and transitional justice through learning the theories and some practical examples. The course examines settler colonialism in reconciliation policies and their regimes of truth. We discuss realities, theories, and critiques of settler colonialism through truth and reconciliation commissions. The course focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and also looks at truth commissions and reconciliation policies in North America and Europe. The course is organized in three parts:
(1) Theories and Definitions
(2) International Examples
(3) Reconciliation’s impact
- Lehrende:r: Selen Kazan