A/HRC/30/42 Cultural and the individual spheres 116. The Special Rapporteur calls upon States to conceive educational reforms, cultural interventions, including memorialization, and archives as part of their non-recurrence policies. He urges States to focus more attention on these areas, and intends to pay more attention to them in the future, in cooperation with other special procedures. 117. He also calls upon States to consider the annexed set of general recommendations for truth commissions and archives as an important component of the work of the Human Rights Council on transitional justice. 118. States should ensure that history teaching aims at fostering critical thought, analytic learning and debate, in order to enable a comparative and multi-perspective approach, as well as a better understanding of the contemporary challenges of exclusion and violence. 119. States should also ensure that psychosocial support and trauma counselling are addressed as core components of transitional justice, emphasizing their central importance for repairing the social contract — i.e., the relationship between the State and the individual — and social cohesion — i.e., relationships of individuals with one another — after periods of protracted violence and/or oppression. The Special Rapporteur underscores that these twin goals are essential to offering victims and society the highest possible guarantees available that violations will not reoccur. 120. The Special Rapporteur calls upon States to build a sustainable culture of non-recurrence by ensuring that trauma counselling in transitional contexts not only focuses on assisting individuals and families with “daily problems”, but also includes interventions to build on and strengthen the resilience and coping mechanisms of the communities and society at large. In this connection, trauma work should be linked to educational reform and education itself, for children, adolescents and adults. 121. He also calls upon States to develop further work on and support for psychosocial initiatives, both to relieve the immense suffering of victims and to help to put an end to cycles of violence. He highlights that to think that the burden of prevention can be carried by punitive measures alone is both to overestimate the capacities of criminal justice systems and to underestimate the importance of other types of intervention. 26