The IDI is pleased to announce publication of “We Don’t Speak Of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma,” the IDI’s first collective effort to share its work. Divided into sections on theory, application and methodology, We Don’t Speak Of Fear holds the idea that, while traumatic experiences may happen to an individual or a family, they also affect society and large-group identity over long periods of time. In that way, trauma plays out between generations and between countries.
‘At this moment in time, when tribalism and polarization are rampant, with humanity split into thousands of splintered groups, and the very planet itself threatened, this compelling book, unlike much of the conflict resolution literature, addresses the deep, frequently unconscious roots of conflict, not just the symptoms. With great understanding and compassion, the various authors explain how the profound, historic wounds of shame and humiliation and fear of loss of identity keep so many communities divided and imprisoned. At the same time, they offer a much-needed vision for how human beings might heal these deep wounds and begin to live on the presumption that we are one human family, despite our differences. We Don’t Speak of Fearis a wonderful contribution to the global family and deserves to be read, pondered, and decisively acted upon.’
Hugh O’Doherty, Founding Member, the Leadership and Peacemaking Global Network – 10/02/2023
We Don’t Speak Of Fear is available for purchase from Phoenix Publishing House.
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