Where is the land and indigenous knowledge in understanding land trauma and land based violence in climate change?

In their editorial on the COP27 climate change conference, Atwoli and colleagues “call for urgent action to ensure it is the COP that finally delivers climate justice for Africa and vulnerable countries. This is essential not just for the health of those countries but for the health of the whole world.”1 This call overlooks that climate crises with catastrophic health effects are occurring within communities, not borders. The editorial does little to serve justice in terms of recognising the role of indigenous knowledge in supporting the world’s vulnerable communities from the effects of climate change.We conceptualise two major observations about mental distress from environmental change and land rights issues—land trauma and land based violence. These concepts reflect ways that the communities we are working with (including the Ogiek in Kenya and the Batwa in Uganda) experience transgenerational and contemporary traumas and violence that have targeted their lands and the wellbeing…
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