The Web is an extraordinary resource. The following selected resources are places to start investigating the topics that you may be interested in. A listing here is not an endorsement of everything that you will find on a site. We welcome suggestions to this resource list.

What is witnessing?

People witness when they see, hear or are told about interpersonal or structural violence and violation. They may occupy any of the four witness positions.

The aim of the Witnessing Project is to help individuals, families and communities move from unintentional witnessing to active chosen witnessing, which has the potential to transform toxic experiences of witnessing into ones that heal.

Articles on Witnessing Practices by the narrative therapist, Michael White:
http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/reflectingarticle.html
http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/reflectingarticle2.html

Projects on Witnessing Genocide
Yale University Genocide Studies Program
http://www.yale.edu/gsp/index.html

The Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing
http://www.psych.uic.edu/research/genocide/index.htm

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

The Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies
http://www.unr.edu/chgps/blank.htm

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/

International Genocide Organizations: Links to these
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/rwanda/genodynamics/links.htm

Links to materials related to the Rwandan Genocide
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/rwanda/genodynamics/links.htm

Cambodian genocide
http://www.cybercambodia.com/dachs/index.html
http://www.preahchanpenhvong.com/jatikhmer/genocides.shtml

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
www.vhf.org

Armenian Genocide
http://www.cilicia.com/armo10.html

Bibliography on the Armenian Genocide
http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/gen_bib1.html

Resources to Make Sense of Historical Violence
Facing History and Ourselves
http://www.facinghistory.org

Materials on the Rwandan Genocide from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/etc/foreducators.html

Witnessing Community Violence

http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/specific/fs_child_com_viol.html
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/childhealthmonth/witness.htm
http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/communityviolence.html
http://phdcn.harvard.edu/about/about.html

Witnessing Domestic Violence
Expert testimony
http://www.nccpr.org/index_files/page0007.html

Fact sheet
http://www.vawprevention.org/research/witnessing.shtml

Fact sheet
http://www.janedoe.org/know/know_children_witnessfaq.htm

Witnessing Illness, Dying and Death
http://www.motherslivingstories.org/
http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/tragedy/helpcope.asp

Using literature to help children cope with adversity of all kinds
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed436008.html

Trauma resources
The National Center for PTSD
http://www.ncptsd.org/index.html

David Baldwin’s Trauma Information pages are excellent and extensive
http://www.trauma-pages.com/

American Psychology Association: warning signs of stress
http://www.apa.org/practice/ptsd.html

Common Responses to trauma and coping strategies
http://www.trauma-pages.com/t-facts.htm

Sidran
http://www.sidran.org/about.html

Foundations for Witnessing
Meditation resources for Awareness
http://www.dhamma.org/
http://www.dharma.org/ims/programs/index.htm
http://www.shambhala.org/
http://www.prajnaparamita.com/newpage16.htm

Thich Nhat Hanh Listening
International Listening Association
http://www.listen.org/

Compassionate Listening
http://www.compassionatelistening.org

Compassionate listening and reconciliation
http://www.coopcomm.org/listening.htm

Nonviolence
Nonviolence resources
http://www.nonviolence.org/

Seeds of peace
http://www.nonviolence.org/

National Peace Foundation
http://www.nationalpeace.org

Boston Research Center for the 21st Century
http://www.brc21.org

Peacegames
http://www.peacegames.org/

Dialogue Methods
World Café
http://www.theworldcafe.com/

Public Conversations Project
http://www.publicconversations.org/

Conflict Resolution
Conflict Research Consortium
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/

Conflict Resolution Center International
http://www.conflictres.org

Alliance for International Conflict Resolution
http://www.a-icr.org/

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding
http://www.karunacenter.org/index.html

Reconciliation
Fellowship of Reconciliation
http://www.forusa.org/

International Fellowship for Reconciliation
http://www.ifor.org/

Centre for the Study of Violence and reconciliation
http://www.csvr.org.za/staff.htm

Murder Vicitms Families for Reconciliation
http://www.mvfr.org/

Reconcilation Australia
http://www.reconciliationaustralia.org/

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/

Victim-Offender reconciliation Program
http://www.vorp.com/

Forgiveness and Healing Project in Rwanda
http://www.forgiving.org

International Association for Public Participation
http://www.iap2.org/boardlink/aboutiap2.html

Hope in the Cities
http://www.hopeinthecities.org/

Imagine Chicago
http://www.imaginechicago.org

Human Rights Organizations
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org

Physicians for Human Rights USA
http://www.phrusa.org

Abolish Slavery
http://www.iabolish.org