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Displacement is the problem of the twenty-first century. Africans and aborigines, rural peasants and city dwellers have been shunted from one place to another, as progress has demanded, “Land here!” or “People there!” In cutting the roots of so many people, we have destroyed language, culture, dietary traditions, and social bonds. We hav e lined the oceans with bones, and filled the garbage dumps with bricks. This displacement, both at the local and global levels, results in root shock, the traumatic stress reaction to the destruction of all or part of one’s emotional ecosystem.
The Root Shock Institute is a project of the Community Research Group of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. The Root Shock Institute’s mission is to prevent upheaval where possible and to mend the damage from upheaval rapidly when necessary. We work with communities all around the world to learn their stories and to pass along best practices advice.. |
