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Danica
Borkovich Anderson
Certified
Clinical Criminal Justice Specialist
Psycho-Social
Gender Victims Expert for the International Criminal
Court- The Hague
Executive Director The Kolo: Women's Cross Cultural
Collaboration
Catastrophic Crisis Responder, Seattle, Washington
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Danica Anderson is the founder
and Executive Director of the Kolo: Women's
Cross Cultural Collaboration. She is a forensic
psychotherapist and a fellow with the American
Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She
is one of only a few that approach catastrophic
violence/wars/conflict and natural disasters
with the gender lens in female social justice
reforms.
Ms. Anderson has been working in Bosnia since
March 1999 with war crimes survivors and refugees,
in Africa for the International Criminal Court,
Kerala, India with sunami survivors and Sri
Lanka with civil war survivors.
Ms. Anderson is the developer of a trauma treatment
that utilizes engendered and culturally appropriate
psychology practices, called the 'Kolo"
(circle or to dance in Serbian). Her work has
culminated into annual human rights conferences
for Bosnian women and been taken internationally
to India and Sri Lanka.
A Psycho-social Gender Victims Expert for the
International Criminal Court in Holland, she
is the only American on the panel and one of
nine consultants. Ms. Anderson works from an
engendered perspective and practice internationally
with missions to the war zones in Africa.
An international speaker, with media exposure
in television and radio, Ms. Anderson has published
articles and is currently writing a book about
her work. In 2002, a book titled, "Believing
in Ourselves," by Nancy Carson featured
Ms. Anderson for embodying a way of life that
prizes community-the Kolo; interconnectedness
and overcoming obstacles in a holistic fashion.
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Workshops, Presentations
and Seminar Topics
International Violence &
Natural Disaster Engendered Crisis Response
Contemporary and innovative engendered approaches for
Acute Trauma, Intergenerational Trauma and Crisis/Conflict
Skills from Africa, Bosnia, India and Sri Lanka conflict/war
and natural disaster zones
Humanity Living in the Aftermath
of War and Disaster
Attached to the International Criminal Court in The
Hague, Netherlands, as a Psycho-social Gender Victims
Expert, Danica Anderson articulates the raw expressions
and first person stories from her field work as a principal
practice to extinguish intergenerational hatred. As
part of the presentation, Ms. Anderson will moderate
an interactive, live video forum with international
survivors for four war and conflict zones. In the oral
presentation and visual formats series, Ms. Anderson
informs and allows us to observe the patterns found
both in national & international zones of violence,
conflict as well in the aftermath of catastrophic violence
& disasters to include disease.
Gender Issues for Disaster
and Emergency Health in the Aftermath of Violence and
Conflict; Intergenerational Hate Crimes
Developing a response protocol that recognizes females
as the major resource in national & international
policies and planning. A dynamic and interactive presentation
to engage participants in determining how their responses
can engender policies and approaches across multi-disciplinary
fields Based on ingesting the information about female
war and conflict survivors- natural disaster survivors
(Bosnia and Sri Lanka) that have utilized the Kolo:
Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration (Kolo-Serbo-Croatian
for circle or to dance) trauma format.
War Crimes-Bosnia: Women’s
Cross Cultural Trauma Treatment Approaches
Extensive insight for the engendered innovative kolo
(a circle in Serbo-Croatian) format, a psychosocial
dynamic model incorporating archetypes and Feminine
Archetypal Psychology, to treat victims of abuse, violence,
rape, and gynocide
Bearing Witness Extinguishes
Intergenerational Hatred
Attached to the International Criminal Court in The
Hague, Netherlands, as a Psycho-social Gender Victims
Expert, Danica articulates the raw expressions and first
person stories (Bearing Witness) from her field work
as a principal practice to extinguish intergenerational
hatred. Intergeneration hatred- learned behaviors often
done in intensive learning dynamics such as our complex
adaptive systems of life from the psychosocial to the
cellular-genomic.
Hate Crimes- Human World Surviving
How Hate Crimes are hidden behind the words such as
culture, family and entitlement along with the rule
of law vocabulary- molest for sexual abuse; This dynamic
and interactive Bearing Witness presentation engages
participants in determining how our responses can engender
policies and approaches across multi-disciplinary fields
so as to become ‘Everyday Activists’ in
our own native communities.
Striving for Social Justice in an Unequal World
Acknowledging the patterns found in hate crimes such
as the shooting death of a volunteer and injuries in
the Jewish Center in Seattle 2006 occurred using a young
woman Anne Frank’s age to move past security.
Coupled the recent school killing of young girls, Jackson
Katz, author in a recent article noted the hate crime
patterns as” In the many hours devoted to analyzing
the recent school shootings, once again we see that
as a society we seem constitutionally unable, or unwilling,
to acknowledge a simple but disturbing fact: these shootings
are an extreme manifestation of one of contemporary
American society’s biggest problems -- the ongoing
crisis of men's violence against women.”
Beleaguered Workplace: Emergent
Comprehensive Traumatic Stress Management for Organizations
Intensive Workshop Advisory Response Protocol
Rising Health , Medical and Mental costs due to Violence
issues, Deaths, Suicides, Catastrophic illnesses, Sexual
Harassment and Sexual Discrimination. Personnel, Security,
Management managers are often fighting for their lives
and that of their employees in today’s workplace.
Intensive advisory work/study for corporations and organizations
offers an engendered ‘state of the art’
trauma approaches from which to manage and be proactive
in an increasingly grievous time for employee issues
requiring costly crisis intervention measures. An ‘engendered’
approach is desperately needed since 85%-95% of violence
victims are female.
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