Responsabilisation

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Accountability

Accountability is the process through which perpetrators are encouraged to acknowledge their actions and their consequences, to offer apologies, reparations or compensation to those affected, and to engage in a process of healing and transformation of the behaviours, attitudes or beliefs that led to the violence. Accountability can also take place at a community level, when a group examines and recognises the dynamics that allowed the violence to occur.

Source:
Ababord.org