( MENAFN - GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) She Joins Past Laureates Desmond Tutu and Jane Goodall to Receive One of the World's Largest Individual Lifetime Achievement Awards West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA, June 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The winner of the 2024 Templeton Prize is Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Dr.
Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor and South African National Research Foundation's Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University. Her insights into the mechanisms of trauma and forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa have created a globally recognized model for social healing in the aftermath of conflict, a model she calls“the reparative quest.” “The 2024 Templeton Prize winner, Dr.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, has a remarkable grasp of the personal and social dynamics that allow for healing in societies wounded by violence,” said Heather Templeton Dill, President of the John Templeton Foundation.“As a psychologist, scholar, and commentator, she has served as a guiding light within South Africa as it charts a course beyond apartheid, facilitating dialogue to help people overcome individual and collective trauma. Her work underscores the importance in contemporary life of cultivating the spiritual values of hope, compassion, and reconciliation.
” Gobodo-Madikizela, 69, was an influential member of the Human Rights Violations C.