Michael
Niconchuk

Michael Niconchuk is a researcher, practitioner, and author who has spent his career exploring what it means to experience and transform trauma and chronic unsafety experienced by communities touched by war and violence. His work, deeply informed by his family’s experiences in Central America and more than a decade of deep relationship with forcibly displaced Syrian communities, integrates historical perspectives, affective neurobiology, and peacebuilding, elevating the science and practice of safety as a key concept in psychological and social repair work. Much of his writing and practice is guided by two questions: how do our individual and collective searches for safety promote both rupture and repair? And how should the logic of human physiology and the natural world influence the design of programs aimed at healing and peacebuilding?