Supported by the UNESCO Slave Route Project, the GHFP has completed a Desk Review aimed at mapping meaningful approaches to healing the wounds of slavery. The Desk Review draws on a conception of healing wounds that perceives the wound of trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery as systematic dehumanisation. This in turn highlights the imperative of … Continue reading Desk Review Report: Mapping Approaches to Healing the Wounds of Slavery
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Remembering the unremembered: A Key to Healing
In her review of Toni Morrison's book "Beloved", Dr Scherto Gill suggests that one of the book's features be that it allows us to remember the unremembered, and reminds us of the need to face the oppressed collective memories of slavery. Without embracing these memories, the unremembered continues to hold our societies, and we live … Continue reading Remembering the unremembered: A Key to Healing
2nd Int’l Symposium: Collective Healing of Traumas: New Possibilities for Peace in Communities Sept 2019
Collective and community initiatives can empower those suffering from the wounds of a violent past to collaborate towards mutual healing, thus creating new possibilities for peace. To better understand the significance of these community-rooted collective healing endeavours, the GHFP and the UNESCO Slave Route Project hosted a one-day International Symposium, at the Royal Society for … Continue reading 2nd Int’l Symposium: Collective Healing of Traumas: New Possibilities for Peace in Communities Sept 2019
1st Int’l Symposium on Healing the Wounds of Slavery Oct 2018: Report
Read here the UNESCO_Symposium_Healing-the-Wounds-of-Slavery_Oct2018_FinalReport
Overcoming structural racism requires more of people, but also healing
Louis Menand writes in New Yorker February 4th 2019 issue: “institutional racism” or “structural racism”—is much harder to address. It requires more of people than just striking down a law. Read the full article entitled: "The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America."
UNGA: Commemorating the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade
General Assembly 73rd Session: 38th Plenary Meeting, 21 Nov 2018 Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Speakers Call for Greater Awareness‑Raising about Dangers of Racism, Prejudice, as General Assembly Reviews Education Programme on Transatlantic Slave Trade - Agenda Item 121. http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/general-assembly-73rd-session-38th-plenary-meeting/5970052087001/?term=
UNESCO Healing the Wounds of Slavery Symposium: Questions discussed
On October 18th and 19th, twenty-eight renowned caring and inspirational experts from multi-disciplinary backgrounds met at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for days of deep sharing, exchange and dialogue around the topic of "Healing the Wounds of Slavery". The symposium included four observers. At the Opening Session, Prof Thomas Banchoff, Georgetown's Vice President for Global Engagement, … Continue reading UNESCO Healing the Wounds of Slavery Symposium: Questions discussed
Trauma of slavery and epigenetics
Epigenetics is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off.
Traces of the Trade
In this Emmy-nominated documentary, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her Rhode Island forefathers were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine relatives decide to retrace the Triangle Trade: from a port town in Rhode Island, to slave forts in Ghana, to the ruins of one of their family’s sugar plantations in Cuba.
Coming to the Table
The name of the organization comes from the “I Have a Dream” speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King. The mission of Coming to the Table is to “provide leadership, resources, and a supportive environment for all who wish to acknowledge and heal wounds from racism that is rooted in the United States’ history of slavery.”
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