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Truth Commissions
Truth commissions are official groups endowed with the authority to extensively investigate the human rights abuses and war crimes committed in a specific country or region during a specified time period.
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International War Crimes Tribunals
These are tribunals designed to prosecute war crimes such as genocide, torture, and rape. Such tribunals are becoming increasingly common and are used instead of or in conjunction with truth commissions to try to move beyond the violence of many ethnic conflicts and allow the society to build peace.
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Trauma Healing
Intractable conflicts often result in deep trauma, which must be healed if the conflict is to be resolved. There are many techniques that are used: relational and community-based approaches such as group therapy, restorative justice or truth-telling processes, cultural healing practices; expressive and creative techniques such as art, music, or drama therapy, writing or journaling; among other psychological and therapeutic techniques.
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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
A movement to establish a US TRC to "properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress" in eliminating racial inequity in the U.S.
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Braver Angels Media
Braver Angels' work is about building civic trust in the USA, healing the wounds between left and right. This video series highlights the stories of the people doing this work.
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The New Pluralists
New Pluralists is a funder collaborative focused on supporting the growing field of practitioners, storytellers, researchers, and innovators working to foster a culture of pluralism in America.
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Trauma Healing
A short description of the costs of trauma, and approaches to trauma healing, together with annotated links to ten documents with more indepth information.
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A Practical Guide to Planning Collaborative Initiatives to Advance Racial Equity
Ideas and illustrations on ways to help people understand the history of current racial harms, advancing racial equity, and starting healing based on actual programs at the local and state levels.
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Indigenous voices on reconciliation
Do you ever feel that you'd like to advance the work of reconciliation, but you're confused or unsure where to begin? Videos from indigenous voices in Canada compiled by the Canadian Friends Service Committee can help.
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Deep Healing and Emotional Expression: Political Forgiveness as a Unique Peacebuilding Process
For a time when the focus is on good-vs-evil politics, social justice, and holding people accountable for past misdeeds, a look at political forgiveness and its role in building a lasting peace.
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Healing Systems
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
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Bridging America's Political and Racial Divides
Peter Coleman shared several key findings from six studies that can help mobilize citizens to heal growing divisions.
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Healing U.S. Divides Through Truth And Reconciliation Commissions
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A Mixture of Pride and Shame
To us, what seems like a sensible way of thinking about the tremendous achievements and terrible injustices that characterize the history of all civilizations.
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Coleman Hughes: My Testimony on Reparations
A critique of the case for reparations and a proposal for a more constructive way of dealing with the unrightable wrongs of the past and the many problems of the present.
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How I Learned To Stop Criticizing Everything
A philosophical argument about lifestyle choices that, if more widely followed, could help heal our divisions.
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Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
FAIR offers a broad critique of mainstream diversity, equity, and inclusion programs along with a promising and less provocative strategy for achieving the same goals.