Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Understanding Nonviolence in Iran

By Bruce Shapiro

Here at the Dart Center we focus on coverage of violence and its aftermath. Usually that means better understanding the role of emotional injury in the lives of individuals or communities.

But sometimes the story is exactly the opposite: What happens when individuals and communities, whose lives have been thwarted and voices diminished by trauma and fear, find creative ways to assert their rights and aspirations? More »

Guatemala: Heartbreak and Hope

Introduction

By Scott North and Donna DeCesare

The stories of Guatemalans reveal a community haunted by civil war and genocide and threatened by the drug trade and gang violence.