Advancing Social Justice Training through a Difficult Dialogue Initiative: Reflections From Facilitators and Participants

Our society continues to be plagued with rampant acts of racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and hate crimes. More so than ever before, engaging in difficult dialogues across differences is imperative. Counseling psychologists are equipped with a multitude of skills that make them uniquely suited to be leaders in effective dialogue engagement. This article provides an overview of a time-limited social justice training opportunity for emerging counseling psychologists called Community Conversations. Community Conversations are designated brave spaces where small groups of college students from varying backgrounds are invited to engage in facilitated interactive and experiential dialogues that explore difficult topics related to power, privilege, and marginalization. The current study examined the multi-tiered impact of the Community Conversations Initiative on both graduate student facilitators and undergraduate participants. We discuss results and practical implications.

Transitional justice in Brazil and the jurisprudence of the inter-American court of human rights: a difficult dialogue with the Brazilian judiciary

O artigo aborda a justiça de transição no Brasil, considerando os objetivos defendidos pela sua teoria geral. A principal proposta é fazer uma análise jurídica do processo de transição noBrasil com base na relação entre o direito constitucional brasileiro e o Sistema Interamericano deDireitos Humanos. É sugerida uma reflexão sobre os caminhhos de diálogo entre os dois sistemas de proteção dos direitos humanos (interamericano e constitucional) propostos por algumasteorias contemporâneas. Como conclusão, algumas reflexões sobre como essa situação contribuipara a atual crise política brasileira, especialmente para certa popularização do autoritarismocomo solução política.

The “Other” at Home: Deportation and Transportation of Libyans to Italy During the Colonial Era (1911–1943)

This article analyses the practices of deportation and transportation of colonial subjects from Libya, Italy’s former possession, to the metropole throughout the entire colonial period (1911–1943). For the most part, the other colonial powers did not transport colonial subjects to Europe. Analysing the history of the punitive relocations of Libyans, this article addresses the ways in which the Italian case may be considered peculiar. It highlights the overlapping of the penal system and military practices and emphasizes the difficult dialogue between “centre” and “periphery” concerning security issues inside the colony. Finally, it focuses on the experience of the Libyans in Italy and shows how the presence there of colonial subjects in some respects overturned the “colonial situation”, undermining the relationship of power between Italians and North Africans.

Globalisation, Cinema and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s Films: London River, Baton Rouge and Little Senegal

Rachid Bouchareb describes London River as ‘my film about the 7/7 London bombings’ and this chapter observes what the director’s filmic language tells us about how to represent the intersection between globalization, nationalism, religion, terrorism and cinema. A comparison between this most recent film and earlier works such as Baton Rouge (1985) and Little Senegal (2001) suggests that Bouchareb has always troubled the generic filmic conventions of his generation. In London River, he chooses to focus on two grieving parents who desperately look for their missing children. The main protagonist of the film is the encounter between a Christian European mother and a Muslim African father. By privileging the intimacy of their difficult dialogue, Bouchareb successfully critiques and refuses a powerful post 9/11 tradition that consists in placing the sensational figure of the global terrorist and spectacular violence at the core of the story.