Beyond Inhumanity : Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Flourishing / Scherto Gill.

Part I: Understanding Harms of Inhumanity -- Understanding and Addressing Harms of Inhumanity: Mogobe Bernard Ramose and Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Ubuntu -- Spiritual Harm and Enslavement -- Massive Traumas, their Societal and Political Consequences, and Collective Healing -- Meditations on the Dead, the Dying and the Displaced: Theorizing Structural Anti-blackness as the Root Cause of Africa’s “Forever Wars” -- Part II: Pathways to Collective Healing -- Towards a Transformed World: A Path to Repairing Slavery’s Spiritual Harms -- Remember Your Mother: A Spiritual Path to Healing Ancestral Wounds of Slavery -- The Scars of Enslavement and Remembering as a Journey towards Healing: African-derived Religions in America as Sites of Memory -- Healing Within and Healing Between -- Part III: Practices of Healing, Justice and Flourishing -- A Story of Richmond, Virginia: Its Southern Origins and Black Tenacity -- Healing Spiritual Harm: An Intergenerational Approach -- Collective Healing and Transformation from a Dehumanizing Past through Personal Dialogue: The Keti Koti Table Dialogue Method -- Common Ground Program and the Collective Healing Circle: A Symbiotic Approach.

Collective efforts to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism tend to orient solely towards dealing with material compensation, such as reducing economic disparity, and levelling access to public services. However, communities directly impacted by the dehumanizing legacies have insisted on a broader reckoning--one that recognizes all dimensions of the harms, including the spiritual injury and the relevant psychosocial trauma inflicted across the generations. They remind us that harms of structural injustice extend beyond the material, the physical and the psychological, also entangling the moral, relational, and spiritual fabric of human life. Understanding harms of inhumanity brings to light the layers of damage and is key to identifying interdisciplinary approaches to collective healing, social transformation and the well-being of all. This book emerges from the ongoing intellectual dialogue as part of the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative. The Initiative focuses on healing the wounds of inhumanity, co-creating just societies and enhancing the flourishing of current and future generations.

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