Vamik D. Volkan

Collective efforts to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism tend to orient solely towards dealing with material compensation, such as reducing economic disparity, and levelling access to public services. However, communities directly impacted by the dehumanizing legacies have insisted on a broader reckoning-one that recognizes all dimensions of the harms, including the spiritual injury and the relevant psychosocial trauma inflicted across...