Decolonization and Restorative Justice: A Proposed Theoretical Framework.

The concept of decolonization has been used in numerous disciplines and settings, including education, psychology, governance, justice, transitional restorative justice as well research methods. Fanon (1963) saw a process both unlearning undoing the harms colonization. For Monchalin (2016), is goal to bring about fundamental shift colonial structures, ideologies discourses. According Alfred (2009, p. 185), requires “nation-to-nation partnership” for “justice peace”. In context Restorative Justice (RJ), entail a) addressing historical colonization; b) recognizing grievances indigenous marginalized communities system genuine; c) acknowledging that state- or INGO-funded RJ practices may do more harm than good. This paper begins with brief overview discourses from micro macro perspectives then locate arguing against “copying pasting” Eurocentric models practices. Grounded findings visionaries practitioners Bangladesh work Cunneen (2002), Tauri Morris (1997), this study proposes decolonizing framework