make reparation

The court also said Israel should “evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory” and “make reparation for the damage caused to all the natural or legal persons concerned”.

“But I feel my trajectory has been to make reparation rather than make monuments.”

Violations can trigger an obligation to make reparation — either restoring the situation to what it was before or providing compensation.

And like Lent, which for believers is meant to mimic Jesus Christ's fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry, New Year's has evolved into a ritual that seems distinctly penitential; where Christians are seeking to make reparation for their spiritual shortcomings, resolution-makers often seem to be making amends for their indulgences from the past year.

Cambridge University has started its own investigation and will consider how it might make reparation for any links to the legacy of the slave trade.