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New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma: Towards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being book cover

1st Edition

New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma Towards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being

Edited By Scherto Gill Copyright 2026
266 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines how historical injustices, especially enslavement, colonialism, and systemic racism, continue to impact societies today. Drawing on global case studies, from the legacies of transatlantic slavery and colonialism in the Americas to Indigenous experiences of reconciliation in Canada, racial healing initiatives in the United States, and community intergenerational dialogues in... Read more

Introduction
Scherto R. Gill

Part I: Structural Injustice and Ill-being: Contextualization and Conceptualization

1. Minding the Historic Voices of the Enslaved, Descendants, and the Call for Reparations

Myriam Cottias

2. Historical Trauma and its Aftermath: Creating a Path to Healing
Joy Angela DeGruy

3. Understanding Legacies of Historical Trauma
Scherto R. Gill

4. Healing the Wounds of the Past: The Long History of Demands of Reparations for Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo

Part II Collective Healing: Case Studies from Around the World

5. Decontaminating Narratives: A Path to Collective Healing
Ali Moussa Iye

6. Emotional Justice: A Framework for Racial Healing
Esther A. Armah

7. Remaking Canada: Centring Indigenous Voices in Reparations and Reconciliation
Lewis Cardinal

8. Healing and Repair: Building Trust to Transform Conflicted and Traumatized Communities
Rob Corcoran

9. Beyond Trauma: Rx Racial Healing
Gail C. Christopher

10. Intergenerational Dialogue and Inquiry (IDI) Towards Collective Healing: Experiences from Global Communities
Ojeriakhi Oluwaseyi, Diane Regisford, Gloria Patricia Moreno, and Casey Overton

Part III. Architecture of Just Society and Communal Well-Being

11. Building the Architecture for Trauma-Informed Societies: Liberating Humanity’s Deepest Capacity to Facilitate Healing at Scale
Thomas Hübl

12. Architecture, Art and Community Relations
Lord John Alderdice

13. Politics of Dignity: Structural Justice for Collective Healing and Global Flourishing
Scherto R. Gill

Biography

Scherto R. Gill is Research Professor and Director of the Global Humanity for Peace Institute at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a laureate of the Luxembourg Peace Prize. She is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of many books on the theme of positive peace, dialogue, good governance, and educational transformation.

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