The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated

The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated

Author: Carolyn Yoder

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1680996363

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How do we address trauma, interrupt cycles of violence, and build resilience in a turbulent world of endless wars, nationalism, othering, climate crisis, racism, pandemics, and terrorism? This fully updated edition offers a practical framework, processes, and useful insights. The traumas of our world go beyond individual or one-time events. They are collective, ongoing, and the legacy of historical injustices. How do we stay awake rather than numbing or responding violently? How do we cultivate individual and collective courage and resilience? This Little Book provides a justice-and-conflict-informed community approach to addressing trauma in nonviolent, neurobiologically sound ways that interrupt cycles of violence and meet basic human needs for justice and security. In these pages, you’ll find the core framework and tools of the internationally acclaimed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program developed at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in response to 9/11. A startlingly helpful approach.


Healing the Heart of Conflict

Healing the Heart of Conflict

Author: Marc Gopin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781536833423

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Conflict can be a difficult concept to understand. You cannot just consider the logical reasons behind the confrontation. You must also understand the feelings and identity issues of the parties. Some people thrive on the toxic environment conflict creates, or they get caught in a loop with little chance of escape. Dr. Marc Gopin has dedicated his career to recognizing, analyzing, and resolving conflict. According to Gopin, there are eight steps for healing conflict. His helpful guide provides an in-depth discussion on all steps. He encourages readers to identify the unique aspect of their conflict and also place it within a larger context to look for patterns. The guide isn't just about resolving conflict in your own life but also about the ways you become a mediator in someone else's conflict. If a peacemaker isn't in control of his or her own emotions and doesn't fully understand intentions, the peacemaker can potentially add to the conflict instead of helping resolve it. Whether you are having personal or professional problems, or you want to help resolve someone else's conflict, Healing the Heart of Conflict will help you take the first step toward a peaceful resolution.


Collective Trauma, Collective Healing

Collective Trauma, Collective Healing

Author: Jack Saul

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1000527948

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Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community-based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both culturally and contextually appropriate. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes to the field and the world since the book’s initial publication. The book draws on experience working with survivors, their families, and communities in the Holocaust, post-war Kosovo, the Liberian civil wars, and post-9/11 Lower Manhattan. It tracks the development of community programs and projects based on a family and community resilience approach, including those that enhance the collective capacities for narration and public conversation. Clinicians and community practitioners will come away from Collective Trauma, Collective Healing with a solid understanding of new roles they may play in disasters—roles that encourage them to recognize and enhance the resilience and coping skills in families, organizations, and the community at large.


Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence

Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence

Author: Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2001-05-23

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0739160044

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Since the end of the Cold War several political agreements have been signed in attempts to resolve longstanding conflicts in such volatile regions as Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine, South Africa, and Rwanda. This is the first comprehensive volume that examines reconciliation, justice, and coexistence in the post-settlement context from the levels of both theory and practice. Mohammed Abu-Nimer has brought together scholars and practitioners who discuss questions such as: Do truth commissions work? What are the necessary conditions for reconciliation? Can political agreements bring reconciliation? How can indigenous approaches be utilized in the process of reconciliation? In addition to enhancing the developing field of peacebuilding by engaging new research questions, this book will give lessons and insights to policy makers and anyone interested in post-settlement issues.


The Effectiveness of Community Health Care Programs

The Effectiveness of Community Health Care Programs

Author: Beverly Ochieng

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-06-16

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 152751689X

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The focus of this book is community-based health care with community health workers as a critical workforce in health improvement. Professionals, policy makers, managers, and service providers need to grasp the critical fact that engaging people from their own perspective is vital to health-seeking behaviors. This book explores case studies illustrating experiences with community engagement and the techniques used for successful Community Based Health Care (CBHC). It will be of interest to students training to be health care professionals, service providers, and managers of health services, policy makers, researchers and academics.


The Transformation of Violent Intercommunal Conflict

The Transformation of Violent Intercommunal Conflict

Author: Stephen Ryan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317013514

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In recent years there has been a remarkable growth of interest in the concept of conflict transformation and the closely related strategy of grass-roots peace building. Yet there exists no general critical analysis of the concept of conflict transformation in the context of violent inter-communal conflict and the different approaches that can be included in response to this category of dispute. This study offers a comprehensive survey and critical overview of this emerging area. Examining the reasons for the growing interest in the concept of conflict transformation in situations of ethnic conflict, the book explores the different dimensions of transformation. It draws on examples of strategies from a number of situations of 'ethnic conflict', including Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, Spain, Sri Lanka and the former Soviet Union , to identify and assess key issues and problems that have emerged, and ultimately to propose a stronger emphasis on the promotion of inter-subjective understanding.


Healing and Peacebuilding after War

Healing and Peacebuilding after War

Author: Julianne Funk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0429674023

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This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book begins with a simple premise: trauma that is not transformed is transferred. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights from academics, peace practitioners and trauma experts, this book examines the limitations of our current strategies for promoting healing and peacebuilding after war while offering inroads into best practices to prevent future violence through psychosocial trauma recovery and the healing of memories. The contributions create a conversation that allows readers to critically rethink the deeper roots and mechanisms of trauma created by the war. Collectively, the authors provide strategic recommendations to policymakers, peace practitioners, donors and international organizations engaged in work in Bosnia and Herzegovina – strategies that can be applied to other countries rebuilding after war. This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, social psychology, Balkan politics and International Relations in general.


The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

Author: Samuel Totten

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 1389

ISBN-13: 1135925909

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This volume is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise. Samuel Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields, such as political science, sociology, history, and psychology, to enable specialists in genocide studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and foster an understanding of how the various components of genocide studies connect. Among the topics included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants genocide early warning signals and forecasting risk data bases sanctions peacekeeping missions conflict resolution the International Criminal Court realpolitik vis-à-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention key non-governmental agencies key governmental and UN bodies working on these important issues. In addition to the annotations, Totten frames the bibliography with a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of prevention and intervention of genocide, raising a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of managing these conflicts.


Civil Society, Conflict and Violence

Civil Society, Conflict and Violence

Author: Wolfgang Dörner

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 178093047X

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Based on the findings of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Programme, this volume looks at the role that civil society organizations play in generating or alleviating conflict and violence and at how situations of conflict and violence impact on the state of civil society in various settings.