“a calf cannot fail to pick colour from its mother”: intergenerational transmission of trauma and its effect on reconciliation among post-genocide rwandan youth

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    This article addresses this gap by exploring perceived mechanisms of trauma transmission to youth born to genocide survivors after the genocide and how these mechanisms might affect reconciliation processes in Rwanda. The authors herein define intergenerational trauma as the manifestations of a range of parental trauma in the lives of the generation that was born after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Creating safe spaces to help both survivor and perpetrator parents as well as their descendants to discuss their past as a support to healing from trauma may nurture improved parent-child communication, thus . . .

     

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