Replay: Janine di Giovanni shares Five Things She's Learned about Moral Injury and its Personal Consequence
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
“Moral injury is a branch of trauma that affects individuals forced to witness an event that goes against their moral core: A soldier, for example, who during war time is forced to witness torture; a mother who sees her children bullied; journalists who witness terrible atrocities and must face choices between their obligation to help and their duty to observe, and who many remain haunted by their decisions for years afterward.”
– Janine di Giovanni, Five Things I've Learned about Moral Injury and its Personal Consequence
Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Here’s the first five minutes of Janine’s 90-minute class in which she shares the Five Things She’s Learned about understanding and surviving the moral injury that individuals suffer when they’re forced to witness an event that compromises their moral core.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Moral Injury and its Personal Consequence focuses on the impact of moral injury not just on individuals but on communities. Janine explores real-life stories from frontline journalism that illustrate the immediate and lasting psychological damage that complex ethical dilemmas can cause. She also considers journalists’ ethical responsibilities towards their subjects as well as moral injuries that have resulted from societal challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and structural injustices.
If you’re interested in thinking fully about the immediate and long-term impact of trauma and moral injury, this class is for you.
Janine writes long format reportage, mainly about war and the politics of conflict. She was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, and is also a public speaker and a foreign policy analyst. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest non-fiction prize, the Blake Dodd. She is currently working on a new book called The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East which will be published this year.
Janine is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the British Governments Stabilization Unit for Fragile States. She is a non-resident Fellow at New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. Janine is the former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has won more than a dozen awards, including the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Prizes and the prestigious Courage in Journalism, and many others.
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