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Reparative Justice IV: Challenges of Engaging, Interviewing and Supporting Child victims/survivors/witnesses of War and Terror

Webinar

Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 1:00-3:00PM EDT / 6:00-8:00PM GMT / 7:00-9:00PM CMT / 8:00-10:00PM EET & IST

Continuing the International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar series in collaboration with Project Sunflowers, today’s webinar follows Reparative Justice I: a conceptual introduction toreparative justice, II. key groups of traumatized victims and III. Difficulties in listening and hearing traumatized victim/survivors/witnesses, all answering the call for specialized training in reparative justice for professionals and others working with them.  Today’s webinar begins the in-depth focus on engaging specifically with child victim/survivors/witnesses of the array of war’s and terror’s massive traumata to help heal and protect both child victim/survivors (family community members) and the professionals themselves from potential re/traumatization of sharing traumatic experiences. Participants are urged to view the three earlier webinars of this series prior to attending this one.

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Speakers:

Mykola Kuleba

A statesman, children’s rights advocate and humanitarian, Mykola pioneered Ukraine’s children’s rights movement and child welfare reforms and legislation to shift Ukraine from Soviet-era policies towards Western best practices. Served as Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights (2014-2021), head of Kyiv Children’s Service (2006-2014), cofounder of Ukraine Without Orphans Alliance, and cofounder/head of Save Ukraine — a multidisciplinary organization that repatriated 273 forcibly transferred Ukrainian children from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

Orna Dotan

An economist and business manager by training first working in finance, banking and communication, for the past twenty years Orna focused on managing health systems, autism, and old age, recently of Kfar Ofrim — the first and largest autistic village in Israel. On October 10, she established the Resilience Unit at the Families Forum of the Abducted and Missing and manages Sderot’s Ezra Lemarphe rehabilitation center that combines physical and mental rehabilitation.

Oksana Senatorova, PhD

A Ukrainian lawyer specializing in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice, Oksana is the Director of the Research Centre for Transitional Justice and Associate Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. A Legal and Policy Advisor to Geneva Call, Ukraine, she has served as an expert for organizations including the Council of Europe, EU, and ICRC, and as advisor to several Ukrainian state bodies.

Michelle Slone

Full Professor at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Israel, Michelle is laboratory director for the study of trauma and resilience and the former head of the child clinical graduate program at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include trauma and post-traumatic reactions, resilience and its promotion in therapy, individual and group therapy for trauma exposure and cross-cultural issues related to trauma and treatment.

Moderator:

Yael Danieli, PhD

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.