New & NEWSworthy
Below is a brief listing of the exciting news and newsworthy happenings at the Center for Violence and Recovery.
Vienna’s Kristallnacht: 70 Years On
Please join us on Sunday, November 23, 2008, for an international colloquium on memory and responsibility, trauma and judgment as experienced through the recollection and interpretation of war. Timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and the beginning of the second world war, historians and jurists will address the themes of record and recovery, archiving and transmitting, as well as the generational divides, responsibility and denial in relation to the Holocaust. The event will feature the debut of the movie 'Truth Be Told,' directed by Brian Dilg and written and produced by Peter Goodrich and Linda Mills. More.
TRUTH BE TOLD
Controversial author and activist Linda Mills pries open the darkly guarded doors of history as she takes her unforgettable but reluctant family back to Vienna, where they fled the Nazis in 1938. Obsessively following a trail of stunning revelations, she uncovers an astonishing array of collaborators, victims, perpetrators and unlikely heroes in a startlingly humorous adventure from Vienna to Hollywood. More.
Kathleen Parker COLUMN ON Violent Partners
Linda G. Mills' Violent Partners discussed in Kathleen Parker's June 25th article "Politically Incorrect Domestic Violence." More.
New Book, Violent Partners, by linda g. mills
A radical new take on the crisis of intimate abuse, Violent Partners argues that as a culture we misunderstand the root causes and basic effects of abuse, and until that changes there is no hope of fixing the problem. Dr. Linda Mills challenges assumptions, tears down myths, and offer solutions, all the while telling riveting stories of couples who have conquered violence in their relationships. More.
Linda G. Mills' work discussed during a 2008 session of
the British House of Lords
To review the Hansard record, click here.
Construyendo Circulos de Paz/Constructing Circles of Peace reaches Top 50 in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Innovations in Government Competition!
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School honored Construyendo Circulos de Paz/Constructing Circles of Peace as one of the Top 50 Programs of the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. Selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants, Constructing Circles of Peace represents on of the best in government innovations from local, county, city, tribal, state, and federal levels. More.
study of peer support programs available to the NYPD
featured in New York Daily News
To learn more about the Center's partnership with the New York City Police Department and their Public Safety Trauma Response (PSTR) program created to critically evaluate the two primary peer support programs available to police officers, visit the Center's PSTR page. To read the article, click here.