This Unveiling Equity conversation, co-hosted by CSLP, CPN-PREV and the Indigenous Healing Knowledges Chair, brings together Dr. Samah Jabr and Dr. Ghayda Hassan to explore equity, dignity, and ethical mental health practice in contexts shaped by colonial violence. Dr. Jabr’s work in Palestine demonstrates how occupation, torture, and collective trauma shape suffering, and how personal narrative serves as a tool for witnessing and resistance.
Dr. Hassan’s expertise in anti-oppressive practice highlights how lived experience, positionality, and reflexivity shape ethical interventions. Together, they examine how personal and collective narratives challenge security-oriented, pathologizing frameworks and inform justice-centered care.
In light of the ongoing killing of civilians in Gaza, the session interrogates how repeated exposure to mass violence reshapes our human compass, risks normalizing brutality, and raises urgent questions about the emergence of a troubling new paradigm.
Through stories, research, and front-line experience, the speakers demonstrate how the personal is political and professionally transformative. The session reframes mental health as inseparable from justice and positions narrative, community-rooted care, and ethical reflexivity as essential to resisting structural and globalized violence.
*En anglais seulement