Kim Wale is Senior Researcher in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Jeffrey Prager is Research Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles, US

Asks how nations remember, deal with and heal from histories of mass violence

Suggests new ways of conceptualizing and addressing collective violence faced by post-conflict societies

Re-thinks some of the assumptions which underpin 'trauma' and 'healing' in order to correctly harness its explanatory power

1. Introduction, Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jeffrey Prager. 2. Remembering Forwards: Healing The Hauntings Of The Past, John D. Brewer- 3. Ethics Of Memory, Trauma And Reconciliation, Irit Keynan.- 4. What Pandora Did: The Spectre Of Reparation And Hope In An Irreparable World, Jaco Barnard-Naudé.- 5. Do Black Lives Matter? A Psychoanalytic Exploration Of Racism And American Resistance To Reparations, Jeffrey Prager.- 6. Aesthetics Of Memory, Witness To Violence And A Call To Repair, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.- 7. Haunting And Transitional Justice: On Lives, Landscapes And Unresolved Pasts In Northern Ireland, Cheryl Lawther.- 8. Listening For The Quiet Violence In The Unspoken, Marietjie Oelofsen.- 9. Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting And Critical Hope: Memories Of Loss And Longing In Bonteheuwel, Kim Wale.- 10. The Ghosts Of Collective Violence: Pathways Of Transmission Between Genocide-Survivor Mothers And Their Young-Adult Children In Rwanda, Grace Kagoyire, Marianne Vysma, Annemiek Richters.- 11. How Shall We Talk Of Bhalagwe? Remembering The Gukurahundi Era In Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, Shari Eppel.- 12. Symptom As History, Culture As Healing: Incarcerated Aboriginal Women's Journeys Through Historic Trauma And Recovery Processes, Judy Atkinson.- 13. Representing Collective Trauma Of Korean War: Creative Education As A Peacebuilding Strategy, Borislava Manojlovic.- 14. Monuments Of Historical Trauma As Sites Of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing And Political Negotiation, Andrea Bieler.