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WATCH: Intergenerational Trauma and the Korean War: Healing Across Generations, Helena Soholm & Joseph Han
May 29, 2024
In our first gathering of Korea Peace Now!’s Intergenerational Learning and Healing Series 2024, we heard from author Joseph Han and psychologist and shaman Helena Choi Soholm on intergenerational trauma, healing, and the Korean War. Both will share their approaches to healing intergenerational trauma and grappling with their families’ histories, the legacies of U.S. imperialism, and the ongoing war in Korea.
Helena Soholm, PhD is a transpersonal psychologist and a Korean shaman. She has been a clinician for the last 18 years, and in her practice, she integrates indigenous healing systems with Western theories of psychology to support the healing and growth process of people navigating the complexities of technologically advanced societies. As a healer and teacher, Helena facilitates soul and ancestral initiations through ceremony and ritual. Clearing and honoring ancestral energy is achieved through the recovery of the indigenous mind, which can deepen a person’s connection to self, others, and land. She collaborates with healers and artists around the world, offering shamanic ceremonies in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The goal of these ceremonies is to ignite collective healing from humanity’s colonial past while simultaneously creating pathways for people to gain awareness of their greater purpose on the planet.
Joseph Han is the author of Nuclear Family, named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a best book of the year by NPR and Time Magazine. He is a 2022 National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree and a Kundiman fellow in fiction. His novel won the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor, the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. At Korea Peace Action: National Mobilization to End the Korean War (July 2023), Joseph co-led a grief transmutation ceremony and community healing event focused on addressing collective and generational grief. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Event date: May 29, 2024
Korea Peace Now!’s Intergenerational Healing and Learning Series 2024:
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Korean War was the “the most brutal war of the 20th century,” according to historian Samuel Moyn, with more than 4 million killed in three years, mostly Korean civilians. Although often referred to as “the Forgotten War,” the conflict continues more than 70 years after a fragile ceasefire was signed, keeping Korean families separated and driving the extreme militarization of the Korean Peninsula and the entire Asia-Pacific. Many Korean War survivors live with trauma, which is then inherited by their descendants, resulting in an ongoing cycle of violence, secrecy, and silence.
Korea Peace Now! is launching an online public educational series featuring activists, artists, and scholars to critically understand the impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from the Korean War and other U.S. forever wars. Through dialogue, political education, and storytelling, we will empower our community to take action for peace, build bridges across generations, and forge a path toward realizing our collective security and liberation. Our speakers will highlight how intergenerational healing informs their work and efforts to end the ongoing Korean War. We will also discuss how the fate of the Korean War is inextricably intertwined with all movements seeking to end U.S. wars and militarism globally.
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WATCH: Voices from a Sanctioned World
October 11, 2023
By World BEYOND War, October 11, 2023 VIDEO IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
The U.S. government imposes broad sanctions on dozens of nations, punishing populations in violation of the Geneva Conventions, supposedly in order to influence or overthrow their governments although that is never the result. The result is horrible suffering and death.
Featured in this video:
Luis Delgado Arria (Venezuela)
Luis Delgado Arria is a university professor, researcher, poet and essayist. He has a degree in Literature from the Central University of Venezuela and a Magister Scientiarum in Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of various books and articles on decolonial philosophy, communication, political advocacy, cognitive warfare and analysis of media and political discourse. Founder and host of several opinion programs on ANTV. He currently serves as vice director of research and intellectual creation at the International Communications University. He directs a collective investigation for the construction of political counterhegemony in Venezuela.
Foad Izadi (Iran)
Foad Izadi is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Iran. Izadi’s research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on United States-Iran relations and U.S. public diplomacy. His book, United States Public Diplomacy Towards Iran, discusses the United States communication efforts in Iran during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. Izadi has published numerous studies in national and international academic journals and major handbooks, including: Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy and Edward Elgar Handbook of Cultural Security. Dr. Foad Izadi is an associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, where he teaches M.A. and Ph.D. courses in American studies.
Cathi Choi (from the U.S., speaking on North Korea)
Cathi Choi (she/her) is the Director of Policy and Organizing for Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of activists mobilizing to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure feminist leadership in peacebuilding. She co-coordinates the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, launched in 2019 to organize communities in calling for demilitarization and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Policy History and the Asian Pacific American Law Journal. She is based in Los Angeles and is the Program Committee Co-Chair for GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals generating progressive, critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational programs.
Fouad Baker (Palestine)
Fouad Baker is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association and the head of the legal department at the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is a Palestinian refugee based in Lebanon. He has studied electromechanical engineering and international law.
Ramón Labañino (Cuba)
Ramón Labañino is Vice President of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC). His one of the Cuban Five, who spent 16 years in prison in the United States.
MODERATOR: Liz Remmerswaal (New Zealand)
Liz Remmerswaal is Vice President of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War, and national coordinator for WBW Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is a former Vice President of the NZ Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom and win 2017 won the Sonja Davies Peace Award, enabling her to study peace literacy with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in California. She is a member of the NZ Peace Foundation’s International Affairs and Disarmament committee and co-convenor of the Pacific Peace Network. Liz runs a radio show called Peace Witness.
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