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Trauma-awareness in peacebuilding – and why we need it now more than ever

Join us for an interactive roundtable discussion on trauma-sensitive and trauma-responsive approaches to interventions in conflict-affected contexts worldwide. Convened by the Academy for Conflict Transformation, this event brings together practitioners and researchers to explore conceptual reflections and practical illustrations.

The session will introduce key insights from an upcoming publication of a multidisciplinary handbook on trauma and peacebuilding, which brings together cutting-edge research and practice from the humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development sectors. Drawing on a case study from the book, speakers will reflect on how collective trauma and different forms of harm shape peacebuilding processes and outcomes, including personal, transgenerational and historical forms of harm.

Furthermore, the discussion will engage with emerging debates on decolonising trauma and peacebuilding practice, reflecting on how dominant trauma frameworks travel across contexts and how they are interpreted, adapted, or challenged in practice.

Designed as an interactive and dialogical format, the roundtable creates space for exchange and reflections between research and practice, highlighting tensions, open questions, and learning across contexts.
The session is relevant for donor agencies, researchers, postgraduate students, educators and practitioners in trauma studies, peace psychology, peace and conflict studies, and in the fields of migration, peace work, humanitarian aid, development, MHPSS.

26 January 2026 | 15:00 - 16:30 CET