This paper introduces the concept of Intergenerational Colonial Trauma Syndrome (ICTS) as a necessary intervention in trauma studies, critiquing the Western psychiatric model that frames trauma as a discrete past event. PTSD, a widely accepted framework, assumes that trauma occurs as an isolated moment, after which healing is possible. However, for colonized and oppressed populations experiencing ongoing systemic violence, forced displacement, and genocide, trauma is not a past event but a continuous, inherited condition that is structurally reinforced. 

It should be the source of grave concern that fundamental principles and rights at work – on the freedom of association, forced labour, child labour, equality law and occupational safety and health – are consistently and systemically breached across the global economy. The 2013 Rana Plaza factory fire that killed 1,134 workers barely weeks after corporate auditors had declared the enterprise safe should have been a global wakeup call about the risks of leaving the foxes to guard the chicken coup.

This dissertation answers the question: In what ways is the University of Groningen (RUG) historically connected to Dutch colonialism, and should the university address this legacy? Through analysing historical artifacts, including gravestones located in the Academy Building, the university’s founding act (The Eternal Edict), and The Tree of Knowledge mural, this study demonstrates that the RUG has been linked to colonial structures since its foundation in 1614.

In 2014 benadrukte de Raad voor civiel-militaire Zorg en Onderzoek (RZO) het belang van inzicht in de specifieke zorgbehoeften van vrouwelijke veteranen, ter ondersteuning van hun mentale gezondheid na uitzending. (Inter)nationaal wetenschappelijk onderzoek toonde namelijk sekseverschillen aan in ervaren risico- en stressfactoren (samenhangend met uitzending) en in klachten die veteranen achteraf ontwikkelen. Ook onderzoek onder Nederlandse veteranen toonde enige verschillen aan tussen vrouwelijke en mannelijke veteranen en hun zorgbehoeften.

Issues of moral well-being among soldiers, such as morale and moral injury, are predominantly approached as individual and psychological concerns. Current interventions tend to emphasize bolstering soldiers’ individual resilience by instilling a sense of justification and purpose. Yet, paradoxically, such an approach can foster behavior in soldiers that later results in deep regrets and a sense of betrayal toward military and political leaders.

Introduction Moral injury concerns transgressive harms and the outcomes that such experiences may cause. A gap in the literature surrounding moral injury, and an outcome that may be important to include in the mounting evidence toward the need for the formal clinical acknowledgement of moral injury, has to do with the relationship between moral injury and quality of life. No studies have examined this relationship in US military veterans—a population that is disproportionately exposed to potentially morally injurious events.

In deze kennisgids vind je relevante (beleids)informatie over Sinti en Roma in Nederland. Van de sociaal-culturele geschiedenis tot actuele ontwikkelingen en beleid. Met praktische tips en verwijzingen naar goede informatie bij (externe) bronnen.

Deze kennisgids beschrijft de geschiedenis van mensen met een Sinti- en Roma-achtergrond, de discriminatie die zij zowel institutioneel als in persoonlijke interacties ondervinden, en hun leefsituatie in het licht van Nederlands beleid.

Trauma beleven omdat je ouders of grootouders een trauma hebben meegemaakt. Intergenerationeel trauma heet dat – en er zijn mensen die dat ervaren. Toch is er geen consensus over dit fenomeen in de wetenschap. ‘Tweede en derde generaties zijn hooguit gevoeliger voor nieuw trauma’, zegt onderzoeker Marinus van IJzendoorn.