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Peace and Trauma: Is sustainable peace possible without transforming trauma?

The twentieth century will be marked in the history of humankind as a century of particular change in patterns of violence. This leaves a dangerous trait – trauma – on both individual and community level leading to a creation of largely traumatized, dysfunctional societies whose capacities to recover and progress are inevitably lessened, even lost in genetic degeneration trauma inflicts on entire generations of human population. Is sustainable peacebuilding possible without addressing and transforming trauma?
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