Ep 8 - Decolonizing Justice - Kirthi Jayakumar

Rupande speaks with Kirthi Jayakumar, founder of Gender Security Project, about her reasons for getting involved in this work, how her past has shaped her outlook towards healing justice and the forms of work GSP undertakes. They discuss how the justice system needs to evolve from incarceration and retributive justice to healing justice for all.

Kirthi discusses her paper: Redrawing the Galtung Triangle - Finding Place for Healing Trauma in Peace Work, and specifically talks about the idea of how trauma is not only limited to people but also extends to countries, citing the example of the Holocaust and by extension, unhealed trauma, leading to the conflict and land grab in Palestine by Israel.

Resources Recommended:

1. Gender Security Project: https://www.gendersecurityproject.com/
2. Instagram posts, blogs, any book on decolonization
3. Kalpvraksh Podcast