University of the West Indies

And the first is the ability to anticipate.

And through our global tourism resilience and crisis management center, which we established at the University of the West Indies, first of its kind in the world, we now have six satellite centers across the world.

we were able to bring that focus on anticipation, being able to foretell, being able to mitigate against disruptions, to manage it when it comes, and to recover.

But not only to recover, but to recover quickly and to thrive afterwards.

They proposed it to European countries.

And then you started to have this cascading effect of responses from Europe, starting with the University of Glasgow in Scotland, who gave 20 million British pounds in reparations through the University of the West Indies.

You had the Digicel phone company chairman, Dennis O'Brien, who said that Digicel are going to have some kind of reparations program.

You had...

He was in Tanzania for some time at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Um, he was at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.

Um, and in part because of his revolutionary politics and because of the way he enacted the ideal of the guerrilla intellectual, which I'll, I'll speak about momentarily, um, you know, he wasn't really able to hold down an academic job, and he was always sort of getting into hot water with whatever institution he was employed by or whatever government, uh, of the country he was living in at the time.

And I think it also speaks to like what the sort of precarity that one takes on, uh, especially in the context of academia today and to the political economy of higher education, the collapsing job market in academia and so on.

You know, it's like I'm, like, always trying to ask myself, "Is this useful for struggle?" rather than, "Is this just an, of intellectual academic interest?" Um, and also, you know, Rodney was always very, very, uh, very much...

He was a popular educator, and he employed this really powerful pedagogical method that he called groundings.

Um, he talks about in a- another book, The Groundings with My Brothers, um, about how particularly when he was at the University of the West Indies in, in Jamaica.

You know, he says, uh, yeah, actually I think I have the quote here in a different tab if I pull it up here.

She got her Ph.D. at the Institute of Development Studies in The Hague and worked for many years at the interface between social research and community development.

Most recently, she taught at the University of the West Indies in Kingston.

Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, welcome.

Thank you so much, Dominique, and thanks for having me.

by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice, a Jamaican judge who has spent years arguing that this is a legal question and not just a moral one.

It was launched at the University of the West Indies.

So when we talk about 19 million people in the brattle model, we're not talking about 19 million people who simply got off ships.

We're talking about Africans transported to the Americas and the Caribbean and people born into slavery across 31 countries.