Building a Partnership to Address Violence in Three Historically Colonised Contexts: Report on Research Meeting in Memphis

Abstract

This report provides an overview of a research visit and planning meeting held at the Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare (MLBH) in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America (US) in December 2008. The purpose of this meeting was for the invited participants to plan a longitudinal study around the working title: 'Understanding the positive mediating influences of faith, religion and spirituality on self-inflicted and interpersonal violence involving males in contexts of historical trauma: An inter- and intra-city comparison in South Africa and United States of America'.