Webinar
Monday, 26 June 2023, 1:00-2:30PM EST / 7:00-8:30PM CEST / 8:00-9:30PM EEST / 8:00-9:30PM GMT+3
This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in observance of 26 June 2023 – the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Presenters from across the world will discuss inter/multigenerational legacies of torture and related traumas and losses to victim/survivors’ families and communities. Their work, the work of the global network of rehabilitation centers, and that of victim/survivors themselves, enhance the transition from horror to healing that might, in turn, prevent torture’s legacies from shaping the lives of succeeding generations.
English Version
Ukrainian Version
Speakers:
Okasana Myronenko, MD
An Orthopedic surgeon, traumatologist, and volunteer, Dr. Myronenko is originally from Ukraine’s Luhansk region. Escaping to Bucha in 2014, she worked at the Dobrobut clinic in Kyiv. Since March 2022, she has also been working at the Hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, and founded the “Our Falcon” Charity Fund in honor of her mother who was killed in Bucha. “Our Falcon” helps forcibly displaced people with limited mobility, seriously wounded soldiers and civilians, persons released from captivity, and the bereaved.
Ahmed M. Amin, MBChB, MA, PhD
A licensed Medical Doctor with the Iraqi Medical Association and Kurdistan Medical Association, Dr. Amin is one of the Founders and the Director of Wchan Organization for Victims of Human Rights Violations, a national Kurdish human rights NGO that operates in Iraq, but mainly in Kurdistan region. He has been working in the field of health and human rights for more than 23 years.
Pau Perez-Sales, MD, PhD
A psychiatrist and director of the Complutense University’s Post-Doctoral Degree in Mental Health in Political Violence and Catastrophe in Madrid, Spain, Dr. Perezz-Sales is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Hospital La Paz and serves as Director of SiR[a] Center for research, forensic documentation and rehabilitation of ill-treatment and torture victims. Pau is the current Editor in Chief of Torture Journal, a quarterly journal on prevention and rehabilitation of torture victims.
Souleymane Guengueng
Koit Jacob Guengueng
Souleymane is 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, NY, USA.
Souleymane’s son, Jacob, earned a Bachelor in Psychology from Touro University, New York, NY, USA.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
