Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Graduate Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro.Dovile Budryte, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College.

• Introduction, Erica Resende and Dovile Budryte, Section I: theoretical approaches and debates, 1.Memory, trauma and ontological security Alexandria J. Innes and Brent J. Steele 2. Transitional justice: politics of memory and reconciliation Hun Joon Kim 3. Performing political apologies Erin Wilson and Roland Bleiker 4. Use of memory and trauma in foreign policymaking Douglas Becker 5. Natural disasters: trauma, political contestation and potential to precipitate social change Vanessa Pupavac Healing and reconciliation in contemporary post-conflict scenarios: securitization movement of war trauma in perspective Renata B. Ferreira JustTruth: the role of truth seeking in reconciliation following traumatic events and crisis Laura K. Taylor Section II: cases Trauma as technology of power: memory, aid and rule in contemporary Haiti, Maria Joao Ferreira Remembering and forgetting in Turkish identity and policymaking Brent E. Sasley Memory, trauma and changing international norms: the German Green Party’s struggle with violence and its concern for humanity Hannes Hansen-Magnusson Traveling trauma: Lithuanian transnational memory after World War II Dovile Budryte Remembering the Nicaragua of the 1980’s: perceptions of a failed revolution Marcos Farias Ferreira Humanitarian witnesses and testimonies in arms control and disarmament: a case study of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ritu Mathur Trauma, memory and the politics of climate change: between climate justice and climate security Pedro Fonseca