"The only real hope of people today...derives from the respect of the miracle of being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, and the miracle of our own existence."
Vaclav Havel
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contributors' biographies
Bessel van der Kolk
To people who roll up their sleeves in the villages of the world to help
victims of flood or famine or war, to workers who eye-witness the
ravages of nature and man at ground zero, the idea that a new era of
peace and security is at hand may well strike them as odd if not a cruel
illusion. Bessel van der Kolk, the Dutch-born director of the Trauma
Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a case in point. As a
psychiatrist and as president of the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies, he divides his time between "ordinary people who have
experienced terrible things" and colleges and policy makers who try to
find solutions to the causes of systematic human suffering.
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