Green String Network is a social movement that works with communities to heal social and collective traumas.

We are a diverse team of peacebuilders, including psychologists, embodied practitioners, police officers, artists, storytellers, filmmakers, researchers, teachers, parents, young people, community leaders, and people with lived experience. Our mission is to design healing-centered interventions and develop innovative research methods to learn about the effectiveness of our work.

Our focus is on addressing trauma as a root cause of violent behavior. We use storytelling, art, and embodied practices to help people articulate the traumas they have experienced and recognize how these experiences have shaped them. Through our programs, we aim to unlock new ways of thinking, behaving, and feeling, so that individuals and communities can live more full and peaceful lives. We believe that healing is the first and fundamental step toward building peace, well-being, and prosperity in the long term.

Our Well-being & Resilience Framework examines peaceful behavior, particularly resistance to reactionary forces and ideas, to understand violent behavior more deeply. Our work focuses on preventing violence in a range of contexts, including violent extremism, violent crime, gender-based violence, and ethnic violence.

By addressing trauma and promoting resilience, we believe that we can build a more peaceful world.