Our Mission Statement
The mission of the international center is to support and facilitate multidimensional, multidisciplinary, national and international, comparative, integrative, dialogue among social scientists and scholars of other relevant fields to:
1) raise awareness of the universal importance and the ubiquitous suffering incurred through multigenerational legacies of trauma; these professionals will further develop and disseminate scientifically valid measures and growing knowledge of the nature and transmission mechanisms of trauma,
2) find ways to prevent its destructive legacies from being perpetuated to succeeding generations; as well as devise principles and programs to promote resilience, treat and assist affected individuals, families and communities to cope with their traumatic histories toward a peaceful, fulfilling future, and 3) utilize informed, stigma-free, advocacy to raise sociocultural awareness of and commitment to preventing trauma and its multidimensional, lifelong and multigenerational effects.
Specific objectives and purposes of this organization include:
* Serve as a clearinghouse for existing multidisciplinary literature and expertise, providing up to date knowledge, guidance and technical know-how for continuing national and international research on the study, prevention and treatment of multigenerational legacies of trauma. As much of the existing information is in hard copy, one function of the center will be to digitize as much of it as possible over time for broader accessibility.
* Advocate for and spearhead the implementation of these multidisciplinary strategies. Grants/awards could be made to initiatives in any relevant media to ethically, stigma-free, most effectively, sensitively and responsibly, convey findings, promote and disseminate developing knowledge. A core function of the Center is to provide ongoing training and networking opportunities, including encouraging related meetings and events.
* Devise optimal multidimensional strategies for prevention, intervention and treatment of pathogenic multigenerational legacies of trauma as well as for enhancing resilient and healthful ones. An important aim in this regard is to integrate relevant advances in all related dimensions and disciplines, such as traumatology, neuroscience, family theory, culture, anthropology, history, political science, justice, law, victimology and religion.
ICMGLT Bylaws
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Yael Danieli
PhD, Founder and Executive Director, New York, NY, USA and Israel
Board Of Directors
Shay Kun
MFA, Officer: Acting President, SK Art Enterprise LLC, New York, NY, USA and Israel (Son of two Holocaust Survivors)
Shay Kun has served as a member of our Executive Committee since December 2018
Dustin Stein
JD, Officer: Treasurer. Lawyer in Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
Dustin Stein has served as a member of our Executive Committee since December 2018
Dean Ajdukovic
Prof. Board Member, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dean Ajdukovic has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2019
Diane Elmore Borbon
PhD, MPH. Board Member; Policy Program Director UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Washington, DC, USA
Diane Elmore Borbon has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2019
Mary R. Fabri
Psy.D. Board Member, Co-chair Working Group on Indigenous Peoples Issues. Clinical Psychologist and Independent consultant, Women's Equity in Access to Care & Treatment (WE-ACTx) Chinle, AZ, USA
Mary R. Fabri has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2023
Christine Kinealy
Ph.D. Board Member, Irish Historian. Founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. Director of African American Irish Diaspora Network.
Ireland
Christine Kinealy has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2022
Harold Kudler
MD. Board Member, Chair of the Library Committee. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Harold Kudler has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2019
Andre Laperriere
MA, MBA, Board Member, Executive Director Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), First Executive Director of the Trust Fund For Victims, Québec City, Canada
Andre Laperriere has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2019
Youssef Mahmoud
PhD, Board Member, Youssef Mahmoud is Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI) supporting the Africa, Middle East, and peace operations programs and serving as focal point on prevention and mediation policies and practices. Tunis, Tunisia and New York, USA
Youssef Mahmoud has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2023
Advisory Council
Nabil Ahmed
Professor, Advisory Council Member, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU and co-principal, INTERPRT, Norway and Bangladesh
Juan Almendares
MD, Advisory Council Member, an internationally known Honduran medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental leader and alternative medicine practitioner. Mr. Almendares is the Executive Director, Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and their Families, Honduras
Peter Bahlawanian
Advisory Council Member, Chair of the Armenia Working Group. A producer/director with over 30 years of experience in almost every aspect of the entertainment industry, Peter is a grand-child of orphans of the Armenian genocide and an active force in protecting the Armenian culture through music, art, and film.
David M. Benedek
M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A COL (Ret) USA, Advisory Council Member, Dr. Benedek is Professor & Chair of Psychiatry, and Associate Director/Senior Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University. He is a past president of the Society of Uniformed Service Psychiatrists — the Military District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and a past representative to the APA Assembly.
Vera Bekes
PhD, Advisory Council Member, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist. Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, USA and Canada and Hungary
Fernanda Frizzo Bragato
PhD, Advisory Council Member, CNPq researcher and Full Professor of Law at Unisinos Law School (Brazil) since 2007 where she coordinates the Law Graduate Program (Masters and PhD ), teaches in Undergrad and Graduate Program, and supervises Master and PhD students. She conducts research and publishes articles in human rights theory, decolonial thinking, and indigenous rights,
Porto Alegre Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
Donivan Brown
Advisory Council Member, the Founder and Director of the Horton-Keller Center for Traumatic Healing, Chair of the Ed Johnson Project and consultant and speaker on racial equity, justice, and healing. Based in Chattanooga, TN, USA
Caecilie Böck Buhmann
MD, PhD, MPH, LLM, Advisory Council Member, Psychiatric consultant and Medical Director of Psychatric Center North Zealand in Denmark and head of psychotraumatology committee of the Danish Psychiatric Association, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kathleen Burkinshaw
Advisory Council Member, an award winning Japanese American author/speaker and a 2nd generation Hibakusha. Her novel, The Last Cherry Blossom is a United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs Education Resource for Students and Teachers. For the past 10 years she has spoken to thousands of students around the world about the humanity under the mushroom clouds, amplifying her message of the imperative need for nuclear disarmament, Charlotte, NC, USA
David Donat Cattin
PhD (Law) Advisory Council Member, Chair of the Justice Committee. The Outgoing Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), and Adjunct Professor of International Law at New York University Center for Global Affairs and of the Law of International Organizations at the University of Verona Faculty of Law, Rome Italy, and New York, USA
Aaron Cohen
Film Director, Advisory Council Member Mexico City, Mexico
Roger Clark
JSD, LID, Advisory Council Member, Board of Governors Professor of Law, Rutgers Law, Camden, NJ, USA and New Zealand
Amina Duraković
MA, Advisory Council Member, Psychologist, researcher, author and activist who focuses on the Bosnian war, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haider Elias
B.A, MA, Advisory Council Member, Co-founder, and the President of Yazda Organization. He previously worked for the U.S. government in Iraq as a translator and cultural advisor. Haider lost his younger brother in the attack against the Yazidi people in August 2014. He then became involved in helping the victims and in advocating to prevent future genocides against minorities. He co-founded Nadia’s Initiative in December 2015, dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis and globally advocating for survivors of sexual violence. He has been traveling around the world to raise awareness of the Yazidi Cause.
Brian Engdahl
PhD, Advisory Council Member, Clinician Investigator, Brain Sciences Center, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shari Eppel
MSc, Advisory Council Member, Forensic Anthropology, Psychologist, Director of Ukuthula (Peace) Forensic Anthropology Team in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Iryna Frankova
M.D., PhD, Advisory Council Member, Chair Working Group on Ukraine Issues. Is an assistant professor at the department of clinical, neuro- and developmental psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. And she is an assistant professor at the department of medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy of Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a chair of Traumatic Stress Network, European college of Neuropsychopharmacology, Leiden, Netherlands
Laura Garland
Advisory Council Member, Human rights lawyer, specialised in indigenous peoples' rights (in Australia, Latin America, and Africa). Most recently, as a Human Rights Officer for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala. PhD candidate, Monash University (Australia). Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Melbourne, Australia
D.W. Gregory
Advisory Council Member, an award-winning playwright (Radium Girls, Salvation Road), and educator residing in Washington D.C.
Pablo de Greiff
PhD. Advisory Council Member, Senior Fellow and Director, Transitional Justice Program, Past Founding Board Member. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice School of Law, New York University, NY, USA and Colombia
Souleymane Guengueng
Advisory Council Member, a Chadian torture victim and human rights activist, who was instrumental in bringing legal action against the former dictator Hisséne Habré. Bongor Chad and New York, USA.
Judith Lewis Herman
M.D. Advisory Council Member, Professor of Psychiatry (Part Time) at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ajna Jusić
Advisory Council Member,
The President of 'The Forgotten Children of War' Association (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ajna is a young activist fighting for gender equality, against sexism and sexual violence both nationally and internationally. Her primary focus is on legal and social recognition of children born out of war which includes children born of rape, children born from forced marriage, peacekeepers’ babies, and children whose fathers served in humanitarian organizations during and after war,
Bosnia, Sarajevo
Olga Kulinchenko
Advisory Council Member, Educator, researcher, member of an international team on the creation of online educational platform "Learning with interviews. Forced labor 1939-1945" and its further dissemination (2015-2020). Voronezh, Russia
Adam Lupel
PhD, Advisory Council Member, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer International Peace Institute United Nations Plaza, New York, USA
Benetick Kabua Maddison
Advisory Council Member, Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc. Through educational programming, MEI promotes the cultural, intellectual, and historical awareness of the Marshallese people and facilitates intercultural dialogue to foster positive social change. Springdale, AR, USA and Marshall Islands
Becky Alexis-Martin
PhD, Advisory Council Member, a Lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. England
Constance Hays Matsumoto
MSc, Advisory Council Member, Chair of the Working Group on Nuclear Issues. Former business executive. Her award-winning novel, Of White Ashes, was inspired by the true stories of her father-in-law, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, and mother-in-law, who was incarcerated in America’s camps during WWII.
Francisco J. Rosado May
PhD, Advisory Council Member, Rector Fundador, Profesor Investigador Founding President, Full Professor Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo Intercultural Maya University of Quintana Roo José María Morelos, Quintana Roo, México
Kevork Mourad
Advisory Council Member, is an Armenian artist from Syria living in New York, whose animated and live visuals have been performed in venues around the world. New York, USA
Donatilla Mukamana
Advisory Council Member, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery / University of Rwanda Rwanda, Africa
Jacqueline Murekatete
JD, Advisory Council Member. Survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and internationaly recognized genocide prevention and human rights activist. Founder of Genocide Survivors Foundation, a New York based nonprofit organization dedicaed to genocide prevention education and providing comprehensive services & support to survivors of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.
Donna Nagata
Prof. Donna Nagata, PhD, Advisory Council Member, Department of Psychology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Barbara Newsom
Advisory Council Member, Communications and Management Consultant, daughter of a Nagasaki atomic veteran. Chicago, IL, USA
Fikiri Nzoyisenga
LLM, Advisory Council Member, Human rights and gender equality advocate, peace educator, and community organizer from Bujumbura, Burundi
Irene Ochem
BA, MBA, Advisory Council Member, Listed as one of Nigeria’s 100 Most Inspiring Women, Irene Ochem is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), an award-winning, pan-African organisation dedicated to fostering women’s economic inclusion and empowerment through entrepreneurship support and development. AWIEF has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). AWIEF is a continental platform for driving inclusive economic transformation for women and works to close the gender gaps in entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.
Victor Ochen
BSc, Advisory Council Member, Victor Ochen is the Founder and Executive Director for African Youth Initiative Network, a Ugandan human rights NGO. A United Nations Global Ambassador for Peace and Justice prompting SDG Goal 16, since 2005 Ochen serves as global advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. Lira, Uganda
Mary Olson
Founder, Gender and Radiation Impact Project. Advisory Council Member, Mary Olson is founder and Director of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project since 2017. She served from 1991 to 2019 as Staff Biologist and Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Analyst at US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a non-government organization. Contact info: www.genderandradiation.org Cary, NC, USA
Maria Giovanna de Melo Pessoa
Advisory Council Member, Lawyer, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Ivory Coast in Pernambuco-Brazil, and Special Assistant of the State General Public Defender Office since 2016, Recife-Brazil
Leila Nadya Sadat
Prof. JD, LLM, DEA, Advisory Council Member, Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law. She has served as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor since 2012 St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dr. Michelle Sanders
M.S.Ed., Psy.D., Advisory Council Member, Co-chair Working Group on Yezidi Issues. A clinical psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of trauma, currently works with Yezidi survivors of ISIS captivity and their children. Co-Founder and Vice Chairperson of Female Advocacy Foundation International (FAFI), a New York-based NGO.
Miriam Schiff
PhD. MSW, MA Advisory Council Member, Professor and Zena Harman Chair in Social Work at Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also the chair of the Hebrew University Authority for Research Students in the humanities and the social sciences. Miriam is a social worker (MSW), a licensed school psychologist and a licensed family therapist.
David Seaborg
Advisory Council Member, an evolutionary biologist, passionate environmentalist educator, President of the World Rainforest Fund, speaker and poet, Nobel Prize winning chemist Glenn Seaborg's son. California, USA
Ethan Hee-Seok Shin
PhD, Advisory Council Member, Lecturer, Catholic University of Korea (Rep. of Korea); Researcher, Institute for Legal Studies, Yonsei University; Legal analyst, Transitional Justice Working Group (Seoul-based human rights NGO).
Amit Shrira
PhD, Advisory Council Member, head of the Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Tuiloma Neroni Slade
LL.B., Advisory Council Member, one of the first elected Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands. He has served extensively and in senior capacities in Samoa, the Pacific region and internationally. More recently he served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum based in Suva, Fiji; and previously as Samoa’s Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations based in New York, and concurrently Ambassador to the USA and High Commissioner to Canada. Samoa and Pacific Islands
Zahava Solomon
Prof., Advisory Council Member, Head of Research Center for Mass Trauma, Bob Shapell School of Social Work,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jennifer Trahan
Prof. JD, LLM, Esq., Advisory Council Member, Convenor, The Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression (GIPA). She is also a Clinical Professor at NYU's Center for Global Affairs and Director of their Concentration in International Law and Human Rights. New York, USA
Antonio Zavala
PhD, Advisory Council Member, a public affairs consultant for international markets for pharmaceutical companies, and previously worked advising energy, banking, and health companies. He is currently a professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Pan-American University in Mexico City, Mexico
Honorary Board
Youk Chhang
Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia and a genocide survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s “killing fields”. Khan Daun Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia
F. Lincoln Grahlfs
A World War II Navy veteran and a sociologist who has studied the effects of radiation exposure on the United States military veterans.
Madison, WI, USA
David Grossman
is a prolific, both nationally and internationally acclaimed Israeli writer, translated into over 40 languages, and an outspoken peace activist. Jerusalem, Israel
- Photographer: Michael Lionstar.
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.
An enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations. The founder and chairman of the Four World's International Institute (FWII), an organization dedicated to "unifying the human family through the Fourth Way" White Rock, BC, Canada and USA
Setsuko Thurlow
Hiroshima survivor; Campaigner for International Campaign for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) - a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Toronto, Canada and Japan
Thomas Buergenthal
Judge (Retired), International Court of Justice;
Lobingier Professor Emeritus, George Washington University Law School.
Washington, DC, USA and Czech Republic
In Memoriam
Ben Ferencz
Last surviving Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor.
Miami, FL, USA
In Memoriam
Hedi Fried
A Holocaust survivor, writer, and psychologist who dedicated her life to spreading the message of the importance of democracy to combat xenophobia. She was born in 1924 in the town of Sighet in Hungary (now Romania) and lived since 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden
In Memoriam
Edward Mortimer
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; former Director of Communications for UNSG Kofi Annan.
United Kingdom
In Memoriam
Richard Rockefeller
MD With gratitude for his generous support for the establishment of the Center. Maine, USA In Memoriam
Donald W. Shriver
The Rev. Dr. Donald W. Shriver Jr., acclaimed ethicist and President Emeritus of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. New York, USA In Memoriam
Fred Terna
Painter, Holocaust survivor. New York, USA and Czech Republic. New York, USA In Memoriam
