Conference Objectives

The objectives of the conference are:

1. Reparative Engagement in Practice: Examine the extent to which community engagement practices, through its various forms, function as reparative engagement-positioning universities as participants in collective acts of remembering, healing, and humanisation.

2. Knowledge Creation for the Cultivation of Humanity: Contribute to theoretical, and practice-based insights into reparative engagement for the cultivation of humanity, grounded in Ubuntu and universal human values.

3. Dialogues Across Spaces and Geographies: Promote meaningful dialogue on the cultivation of humanity through engagement between communities and higher education institutions in South Africa; between South-South partnership relationships and between the global South and global North partnership relationships.