What Does The Colonizer Owe: Restorative Justice in the Words of Citizens

• In Event: Criminology, Colonialism, and Coloniality

Abstract

As we promote Restorative Justice Frameworks in context of international crime, attention must be paid to the crime of colonization. What do colonizers owe countries that they colonized?

Using interviews with people who experienced colonization in Suriname, I discuss what the people themselves feel the Dutch could have/should have done to truly give Justice to a country they profited from

Author

• Melissa Swauncy-Coleman, University of Massachusetts Lowell