Webinar
Monday, 12 February 2024, 1:00-3:00PM EST / 6:00-8:00PM GMT / 7:00-9:00PM CMT / 8:00-10:00PM EET & IST
This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar series is held in collaboration with Project Sunflowers. It is a third in a series, following I: a conceptual introduction toreparative justice and II. key groups of traumatized victims. Today’s webinar will focus on elements of the conspiracy of silence ubiquitously present after trauma, harmful both to the victims and society. Whereas society has a moral obligation to share its members’ pain, professionals and investigators of all related disciplines have, in addition, a professional, contractual obligation. When we fail to listen, explore, understand, and help, we too inflict the “trauma after the trauma”, or “the ‘second injury’ to victims” by maintaining and perpetuating the conspiracy of silence. The webinar will report and elaborate on findings detailing the multiple ways professional listening is compromised and its implications to reparative justice. Participants are urged to view the earlier webinars on this series prior to attending this one.
English Version
Ukrainian Version
Presenter:
Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Discussant:
Yurii Belousov
Head of the War Crimes Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office in Ukraine (PGO), Yuriy Belousov was previously head of the Department for Combating Violations of Human Rights in the Law Enforcement and Penitentiary Sectors and the PGO’s specialized Unit for Combating Torture. From 2016 to 2019 he was the executive director of the Experts’ Centre for Human Rights — an NGO working on criminal justice and human rights. From 2019 to 2022 he headed the Department of Combating Violations of Human Rights in Law-enforcement at Penitentiary Areas (PGO).
Moderator:
Veronika Plotnikova, PhD
Head of the Coordination Center for the Support of Victims and Witnesses of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Ukraine, Veronika Plotnikova has been working in the prosecutor’s institutions’ system for over 15 years, leading the specialized units for implementing human rights standards into the prosecutor’s services. She co-authored the practical commentary on the Code of Professional Ethics of Prosecutors, is a trainer in the Training Center of Prosecutors of Ukraine, and national expert of projects of Council of Europe.
