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This book examines how historical injustices, especially enslavement, colonialism, and systemic racism, continue to impact societies today. Gathering interdisciplinary perspectives, it offers practical strategies and hopeful narratives that demonstrate how societies can move from entrenched division towards communal healing.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Structural Injustice and Illbeing: Contextualisation and Conceptualisation 1. Transatlantic Enslavement and Modern Repercussion 2. Historical Trauma and its Aftermath: Creating a Path to Healing 3. Understanding Legacies of Collective Trauma 4. Healing the Wounds of the Past: The Long History of Demands of Reparations for Slavery
Part II: Collective Healing: Case Studies from Around the World 5. Decontaminating Narratives: A Path to Collective Healing 6. Emotional Justice: A Framework for Racial Healing 7. Remaking Canada: Centering Indigenous Voices in Reparations and Reconciliation 8. Healing and Repair: Building Trust to Transform Conflicted and Traumatized Communities 9. Beyond Trauma: Rx Racial Healing 10.Intergenerational Dialogue and Inquiry (IDI) Toward Collective Healing: Experiences from Global Communities
Part III. Architecture of Just Society and Communal Well-Being 11. Building the Architecture for Trauma-Informed Societies: Liberating Humanity's Deepest Capacity to Facilitate Healing at Scale 12. The Architecture and Art of Healing Community Relations 13. Politics of Dignity: Structural Justice for Collective Healing and Global Flourishing
About the author
Scherto R. Gill is Research Professor and Director of the Global Humanity for Peace Institute at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a laureate of the Luxembourg Peace Prize. She is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of many books on the theme of positive peace, dialogue, good governance, and educational transformation.
