The Wheel of Violence

Here’s an article I wrote recently about cycles of generational violence and trauma for my good friends at News Decoder. It’s about El Salvador, where I worked in the early 1990s, but it could be about many other places too. Repression and violence breed future trauma, and where trauma is unresolved there is no lasting peace.

FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, 1991. Photograph by Martin Langfield