The phrase "acts of compensation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is referring to actions taken to make amends or provide restitution for a loss or injury.
Example: "The company implemented several acts of compensation to address the grievances of affected customers."
Alternatives: "measures of restitution" or "actions of reparation".
If Hergatt's cooking can occasionally seem fussy — the menu references kinome, nashi pear, banyuls reduction, tatsoi, urfa spice, and wilted tetragonia, which turns out to be a sort of imported spinach — it's an understandable act of compensation.
Traditionally, full reconciliation combined this act of compensation with ceremonies known among the Dinka as "Achuiil" and among the Nuer as "Ca Keth Dek," typically involving the slaughter of a white bull to forge a relationship between the two parties (Howell 1954; Johnson 1986; Jok et al. 2004; Akuei and Jok 2010; Tiitmamer et al. 2016).
The imputation of the value of real compensation to the acts of symbolic compensation is partly based upon the expressive value of acts of symbolic compensation.
Those who carry out acts of symbolic compensation will want to provide some real compensation to those who currently suffer as a result of the same past wrongs, to help those who currently are victims of similar injustices, and to prevent such injustices from happening again.[56] The reasons for acts of symbolic compensation provide reasons for real compensation where this is possible.
Acts of symbolic compensation will have consequences for others as well, particularly surviving and indirect victims of past injustices.
Acts of symbolic compensation can thus be valuable for those who perform them, since doing so helps express attitudes that are important for their self-understanding and identity.
Acts of symbolic compensation make it possible for those who carry them out to act in such a way as to express an understanding of themselves as people who wish to, and would, carry out acts of real compensation if this were only possible.
Of course, public commemorations may be put to the use of (re- affirming values that differe- affirminglues that many people participating in the acts of symbolic compensation may wish to express.
