Monday, 27 June 2022, 1:00-2:30PM EDT / 6:00-7:30 GMT / 7:00-8:30PM CMT.
This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in observance of 26 June 2022 – the International Day of Supporting Victims of Torture. Participants will discuss inter/multigenerational legacies of torture and of related traumas and losses to victim/survivors’ families and communities, as well as professionals’ and descendants’ attempts at pursuing support, peace and justice.
Speakers:
Dr. Mary Fabri
A member of the ICMGLT Advisory Council and co-chair of ICMGLT’s Working Group on Indigenous Issues, Dr. Mary Fabri is a clinical psychologist whose career has focused on the treatment of torture survivors and training local providers in post-conflict settings to care for victims of human rights violations. Former Senior Director of the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture in Chicago, she served as President of the (US) National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs for five years.
Dr. Hawthorne Smith
A licensed psychologist, Dr. Hawthorne Smith is Director of the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture and an Associate Clinical Professor at the NYU School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. He is President of the (US) National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs. In addition, Dr. Smith is co-founder of Nah We Yone, Inc., a non-profit organization working primarily with refugees from Sierra Leone and other displaced Africans in New York.
Shari Eppel
A Zimbabwean who lives and works in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Shari Eppel is a psychologist and a forensic anthropologist. She has been involved for more than twenty years with exhumation and reburial of those murdered in the 1980s in her region, by the post-independent state. The need to honor the murdered dead remains an urgent need. In recent years, this has increasingly become work with the next generation of survivors, as transgenerational trauma is now a reality.
Carla Ferstman
Carla is a Professor at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK. Prior to joining academia in 2018, she worked as the Director of anti-torture organization REDRESS, and with other civil society groups and intergovernmental organizations on human rights, victims’ rights and international justice.
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.
