I had left my house in the afternoon to attend a women’s only investment and table banking meeting popularly known as a chama. As typical with these meetings, we did not start strictly on time and the group’s officials were reluctant to start the meeting without majority of the members being present. This meant that […]
Green String Network developed the Wellbeing and Resilience (WebR) Framework which draws on the fields of neurobiology, psychology, restorative justice, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and traditional practices. The framework examines how historical injustices and their present manifestations through the lens of trauma and identifies the mechanisms for the transmission of historical trauma: legacies and aftermaths. These […]
Few organizations have developed sustainable, culturally relevant, grass-root trauma-informed interventions outside of North America. Yet our research is showing a direct link between levels of trauma in vulnerable communities and the challenges faced with justice, reconciliation, security, and overall economic and social wellbeing. Today GSN has a proof of concept, a working road map of […]