This comprehensive handbook offers a multidisciplinary exploration of research and practice at the intersection of trauma and peacebuilding.
Highlighting case studies from diverse conflict contexts around the globe, the book offers conceptual reflections and practical illustrations of trauma-sensitive and trauma-responsive approaches to interventions across the humanitarian- peacebuilding-development spectrum. Chapters critically evaluate the current state of research and policy discourse, including the global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) agenda, bringing greater attention to the issue of collective trauma and offering original insights and good practices for engaging with trauma-affected populations. The book highlights the work of international researcher-practitioners who reflect on the implications of personal, collective, transgenerational, and historical trauma for peacebuilding, providing practical recommendations for improved theory and practice. It also emphasises the importance of decolonizing trauma and peacebuilding practices, foregrounding perspectives from the Global South as alternatives to conventional Western frameworks.
This handbook will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of trauma studies, peace psychology, peace and conflict studies, migration, humanitarian and development studies. It will also be important reading for professionals in mental health and psychosocial support, humanitarian aid and donor agencies, peacebuilding professionals and activists, NGOs and anyone working with populations affected by ongoing and historical conflict.
This comprehensive handbook offers a multidisciplinary exploration of research and practice at the intersection of trauma and peacebuilding. This handbook will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of trauma studies, peace psychology, peace and conflict studies, migration, humanitarian and development studies.
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'This Handbook offers a significant advance and platform that deepens our understanding of trauma, healing, and peacebuilding. I say this for three reasons. First, the extraordinary list of authors are among the most experienced practitioners who have committed to a vocational lifetime facing and living with the challenges of trauma in settings of protracted conflict. Their focus on trauma-responsive centers action and practical strategies cultivating constructive change and sustained healing. Second, this Handbook brings these learnings and strategies via authors who are from and engaged with an extraordinary breadth of geographic contexts and cultural backgrounds that offer views and evidence-based experience far beyond Western dominant models. And finally, these chapters capture the cutting edges of practices from the expressive arts to facing intergenerational and collective trauma that truly give meaning to the notion of committing to comprehensive and integrated approaches to peacebuilding.'
John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Barry Hart
Preface
Sara Clarke-Habibi and Cordula Reimann
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Trauma-Awareness in Peacebuilding: An Introduction
Cordula Reimann and Sara Clarke-Habibi
Part 1: Understanding Individual and Collective Trauma in Contexts of Violent
Conflict and Peacebuilding
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 2: Psychological Causes and Effects of Individual and Collective
Violence
Sara Clarke-Habibi
Chapter 3: Collective Trauma as Violent Conflict Dynamics
Cordula Reimann
Chapter 4: Opening Up Spaces for Collective Trauma in Peacebuilding Practice
Cordula Reimann
Chapter 5: A Framework for Understanding and Transforming Posttraumatic
Narratives
Sousan Abadian
Chapter 6: Impacts of War on the Transfer and Transformation of
Intergenerational Trauma in Israel
Larissa Kunze and David Senesh
Chapter 7: Identity Needs and Reconciliation following Collective Trauma
Nurit Shnabel
Chapter 8: Influence of Trauma on Identity, Justice, Resilience and
Peacebuilding
John Woodall
Part 2: Understanding Resilience and Healing in Contexts of Violent Conflict
and Peacebuilding
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 9: Reflections on the Foundations of Resilience and Healing
Sara Clarke-Habibi
Chapter 10: Embodied Resilience and Healing in the Context of
Transgenerational Trauma in Palestine and Israel
Eva Dalak
Chapter 11: Art and Embodiment in Peacebuilding
Ada Hakobyan
Chapter 12: Using Expressive Arts to Address Collective Trauma and Structural
Violence in Korea and the USA
Eunkyung Ahn, Hyo Jin Chang, and Kathryn Mansfield
Chapter 13: Reflecting on Collective Resilience during and after the Beslan
Tragedy
Larissa Sotieva
Chapter 14: Exploring Unity Process Theory and Practise for Overcoming
Crisis: Experiences from Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Woodall
Chapter 15: Interrupting Violence with Trauma and Resilience Education
Kathryn Mansfield and Kajungu Mturi
Part 3: Promoting Resilience in Crisis through Mental Health and Psychosocial
Support
Introduction to Part 3
Chapter 16: Trauma-Informed MHPSS in War-Affected Ukraine
Imke Hansen
Chapter 17: Playback Theatre as a Tool for Embodied Socio-Psychological
Support in Ukraine
Nataliia Vainilovych
Chapter 18: Trauma-Sensitive Peace Education in Northern Syria
Jihad Alabdullah, Mohammad Abo Hilal, Mohamad Yassen, and Mohammad Affara
Chapter 19: Psychosocial Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Inge Missmahl and Birte Brugmann
Chapter 20: Integrating Gender into MHPSS and Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding
in Central African Republic
Amy Dwyer Neigenfeld
Chapter 21: Hypno-Neuro-Imagination Techniques for Promoting Mental Health in
Humanitarian-Peacebuilding Contexts
Annick Python, Claude Ribaux, and Marta Hegyaljai Python
Chapter 22: Trauma-Informed Facilitation in Peacebuilding Contexts: Ethics,
Questions and
Methods
Sara Clarke-Habibi
Chapter 23: Practising what we preach: Duty of care as an essential component
of sustainable, trauma-responsive peacebuilding
Friederike Bubenzer
Part 4: Addressing Collective Trauma in Peacebuilding and Conflict
Transformation
Introduction to Part 4
Chapter 24: Addressing Collective Trauma in Dealing with the Past Processes
in Lebanon
Soha Fleyfil and Jenny Munro
Chapter 25: Trauma-Sensitive Mediation: A Missing Element in the Syrian Peace
Process
Caroline Brooks
Chapter 26: Memory as a Basis for (Re-)Conciliation in the Caucasus
Julia Böcker
Chapter 27: Trauma-Responsive Approaches to Truth Recovery in the Aftermath
of Gross Violations of Human Rights in Nepal and Iraq
Tyrone Savage
Chapter 28: Towards Trauma Responsiveness in Transitional Justice Education
in Colombia
Angela Sanchez-Rojas
Chapter 29: Establishing Multi-stakeholder Alliances to promote Societal
Healing and Resilience in post-genocide Rwanda
Alexandros Lordos, Révérien Interayamahanga, Frank Kayitare, Ernest
Dukuzumuremyi, Margret Mahoro, Joanita Mwiza, and Jessica Mbanda
Chapter 30: Healing Collective Traumas to Foster Social Transformation in
Kenya
Steven Lichty, Angi Yoder-Maina, Wanjika Waibochi, and Yvonne Gache
Chapter 31: Equipping Youth Peacebuilders with Trauma-Sensitivity: Summer
Academy for Intercultural Dialogue
Atran Youkhana and Martina Bock
Part 5: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Trauma and Peacebuilding Practice and
Research
Introduction to Part 5
Chapter 32: Give me justice, not pills: an Anti-Oppressive Agenda for the
Integration of MHPSS and Peacebuilding
Michael Niconchuk
Chapter 33: Trauma and Resilience in the Global South: Decolonized Peace
Psychology Practices in Kashmir
Ufra Mir
Chapter 34: Re-storying the Experience of Indigenous Trauma and
Reconciliation in Canada
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux and Magdalena Smolewski
Chapter 35: Deconstructing Collective Trauma in Peacebuilding: Challenges &
Potential
Ada Hakobyan and Cordula Reimann
Chapter 36: Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding: Future Directions
Cordula Reimann and Sara Clarke-Habibi
Glossary
Index
Sara Clarke-Habibi is a peacebuilding specialist with 25 years of experience as a practitioner, researcher, educator, curriculum developer, trainer, facilitator, and advisor. Focussed on violence-affected and post-conflict environments, she works thematically on issues of trauma-sensitivity, MHPSS, conflict memory and identity, peace psychology, social healing, and intergroup reconciliation.
Cordula Reimann has worked for 30 years as a process and dialogue facilitator, trainer, researcher, consultant, and coach on conflict sensitivity, conflict transformation, trauma, and gender. As a practitioner-scholar, Cordula has worked with and for local grassroots movements, mainly in South Asia and the Middle East, international and Swiss and German governmental and non-governmental peacebuilding, development, and aid organisations.
