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Despite European expansion and colonization starting in the fifteenth century that resulted in long-term trauma and inequality for those who were colonized (Sloan, Joyner, Stakeman, & Schmitz, Critical multiculturalism and intersectionality in a complex world. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018), colonized peoples are resilient. In this chapter, we first examine colonization, White supremacy patriarchy, and neoliberalism as strategies that resulted in our current state of racial, social, and economic injustice. We then turn to healing and resiliency of colonized peoples by describing countries on two continents that found ways to reclaim voice, advocate for peace and environmental justice, and heal. We provide exemplars that exemplify local, Indigenous, nonviolent, and relational models of reclaiming voice, exhibiting resistance, building resilience, and establishing agency. We also examine the strategies used by African-Americans to reclaim voice and heal from trauma during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. In each case, we include the historical context, the peacebuilding process, and an examination of factors that contributed to, or hindered, peacebuilding.
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Sloan, L.M., Schmitz, C.L. (2022). Resilience and the Claiming of Voice by Marginalized Communities. In: Standish, K., Devere, H., Suazo, A., Rafferty, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0969-5_6
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