Réparations

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Reparations

By reparations, we primarily mean reparations for victims of sexual violence, but more broadly also reparations for the ecosystem that enabled that violence. At this stage of our research, we define this ecosystem as the group of all people connected to a situation of sexual violence (victims, victims’ loved ones, perpetrators, perpetrators’ loved ones, therapists, actors within the justice system, and society at large). We therefore prefer to speak of ‘paths to reparation’, as what is reparative for one person may be difficult for another. Each path to reparation should be respected in its uniqueness.

Source :
Definition proposed by the Traverser / Transcender team.