{"id":217266,"date":"2022-08-01T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217266"},"modified":"2022-07-29T04:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T03:11:24","slug":"apology-and-reparation-two-steps-the-american-psychological-association-should-take-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/apology-and-reparation-two-steps-the-american-psychological-association-should-take-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology and Reparation: Two Steps the American Psychological Association Should Take Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-217267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims-1024x692.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims-1024x692.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims-768x519.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims-1536x1038.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/guantanamo-usa-torture-rendition-pentagon-cia-us-military-muslims.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>28 Jul 2022 &#8211; <\/em>This past May, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims, the executive committee of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association) voted to endorse a brief <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethicalpsychology.org\/materials\/Two-Steps-the-American-Psychological-Association-Should-Take-Today.pdf\" >statement<\/a>. The statement calls upon the APA\u2019s leadership to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>apologize to the victims of U.S. war-on-terror prisoner abuses, and<\/li>\n<li>make recurring financial contributions to organizations that provide support for torture victims and their families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the statement explains,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOver a period of years, predominantly Muslim and Arab men and boys imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, CIA black sites, and other locations were subjected to physical and psychological torment and degradation\u2026 These operations relied significantly on the involvement of psychologists. That involvement was tragically preserved and promoted, in part, by the APA\u2019s own misguided actions and inaction.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the three months since the statement was issued, nearly two dozen organizations have also endorsed it, and additional groups are currently engaged in discussions about endorsement. The full list of endorsers to date appears below. It includes several APA divisions as well as internationally recognized organizations such as Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Victims of Torture, Physicians for Human Rights, and Veterans for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the APA\u2019s board of directors has not responded to this call for action. Next week the APA will hold its annual convention. With thousands of members gathering in Minneapolis, the convention would be an ideal time for the APA\u2019s leadership to issue an overdue apology and make a public commitment to providing support to victims of torture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The APA routinely makes financial donations to\u00a0other 501(c)(3) nonprofits whose needs and activities are consistent with the Association&#8217;s own mission to \u201cto promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.\u201d\u00a0A review of recent APA annual tax filings through 2020 reveals numerous contributions to organizations that serve vulnerable populations\u2014but none to groups that provide support to torture victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizational Endorsers as of July 26, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Executive Committee (APA Division 48)<\/p>\n<p>*Society for Personality and Social Psychology (APA Division 8)<\/p>\n<p>*Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues&#8211;SPSSI (APA Division 9)<\/p>\n<p>*Society of Counseling Psychology, Executive Board (APA Division 17)<\/p>\n<p>*Psychologists in Public Service (APA Division 18)<\/p>\n<p>*Society for the History of Psychology, Executive Committee (APA Division 26)<\/p>\n<p>*Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27)<\/p>\n<p>*Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Executive Committee (APA Division 39)<\/p>\n<p>*Divisions for Social Justice of the APA (a consortium of 22 APA divisions;\u00a0the position of DSJ does not necessarily represent or reflect the views of individual divisions)<\/p>\n<p>*Coalition for an Ethical Psychology<\/p>\n<p>*European Community Psychology Association<\/p>\n<p>*Psychologists for Social Responsibility<\/p>\n<p>*International Network for Peace Psychology<\/p>\n<p>*International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry<\/p>\n<p>*Amnesty International USA<\/p>\n<p>*Association of World Citizens<\/p>\n<p>*Center for Constitutional Rights<\/p>\n<p>*Center for Victims of Torture<\/p>\n<p>*Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights US<\/p>\n<p>*Physicians for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roy_eidelson-e1527957518662.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-110813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roy_eidelson-e1527957518662.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a> Roy Eidelson is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network<\/a> and was a member of the American Psychological Association for over 25 years, prior to his resignation. He is a clinical psychologist and the president of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eidelsonconsulting.com\" >Eidelson Consulting<\/a>, where he studies, writes about, and consults on the role of psychological issues in political, organizational, and group conflict settings. He is a past president of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psysr.org\" >Psychologists for Social Responsibility<\/a>, former executive director of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, and a member of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalpsychology.org\" >Coalition for an Ethical Psychology<\/a>. Roy is the author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/royeidelson.com\/political-mind-games-free-pdf\/\" >Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What\u2019s Happening, What\u2019s Right, and What\u2019s Possible<\/a><em> and can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:reidelson@eidelsonconsulting.com\">reidelson@eidelsonconsulting.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Jul 2022 &#8211; A brief update on the call for the APA to apologize to the victims of U.S. war-on-terror prisoner abuses and make recurring financial contributions to organizations that provide support for torture victims and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":110813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2755,867,2642,133,1810,1464,1126,1050,335,112,1266,2839,572,95,2686,492],"class_list":["post-217266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-american-psychological-association-apa","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-cia","tag-enhanced-interrogation","tag-guantanamo","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-muslims","tag-pentagon","tag-rendition","tag-reparations","tag-torture","tag-us-military","tag-war-of-terror","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}