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Why genocide survivors can offer a way to heal from the trauma of the pandemic year

  • Written by Donald E Miller, Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageA gathering of women survivors at a Solace Ministries meeting, near Kigali, Rwanda, in 2010.Donald E. Miller, CC BY

The pandemic has been a period of acute trauma at many levels. More than 3 million people have died globally from COVID-19, including over 600,000 in the United States. Doctors and nurses have experienced a moral crisis, feeling that...

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