Healing and Peacebuilding After War
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.
The 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.
Julianne Funk is Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, and Managing Editor of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
Nancy Good is a trauma therapist and international therapist consultant with The KonTerra Group and Portland Trauma Recovery. For 20 years she was faculty with Eastern Mennonite Universitys Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, USA.
Marie E. Berry is Assistant Professor and director, Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA.
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The field of peace and conflict research has grown enormously as an academic pursuit in recent years, gaining credibility and relevance amongst policy makers and in the international humanitarian and NGO sector. The Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution series aims to provide an outlet for some of the most significant new work emerging from this academic community, and to establish itself as a leading platform for innovative work at the point where peace and conflict research impacts on International Relations theory and processes.
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Criminalising Politics and Politicising Crime
Daniel Kirkpatrick
Peace in International Relations
Oliver P. Richmond
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Healing and Peacebuilding After War
Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Julianne Funk, Nancy Good and Marie E. Berry
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Names: Trauma, Memory and Healing in the Balkans and Beyond (2016 : Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), author. | Funk, Julianne, 1975 editor. | Good, Nancy, 1952 editor. | Berry, Marie E., 1983 editor.
Title: Healing and peacebuilding after war : transforming trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina / edited by Julianne Funk, Nancy Good, and Marie E. Berry.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020004584 (print) | LCCN 2020004585 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367027988 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429397745 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Peace-buildingBosnia and HerzegovinaCongresses. | Collective memoryBosnia and HerzegovinaCongresses. | Psychic traumaBosnia and HerzegovinaCongresses. | Yugoslav War, 19911995Psychological aspectsCongresses. | Bosnia and HerzegovinaPolitics and government1992Congresses.
Classification: LCC JZ5584.B5 T73 2020 (print) | LCC JZ5584.B5 (ebook) | DDC 362.1968/52100949742dc23
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Contents
Julianne Funk and Marie E. Berry
PART I
Incorporating trauma healing into peacebuilding practice
Nancy Good and Julianne Funk
Kristina Hook
Barry Hart
PART II
How to remember and tell stories of trauma
Alma Jefti
Stephanie C. Edwards
Edita olo Zahirovi
PART III
Womens resilience
Zilka Spahi iljak
Marie E. Berry
Jessica M. Smith
PART IV
From justice to artistic expression: practices of working with trauma
Mina Rauschenbach, Stephan Parmentier and Maarten Van Craen
Kathryn Mansfield
Marie E. Berry
Guide
This book has its origin in a conference held in Sarajevo in the summer of 2016, entitled Trauma, Memory and Healing in the Balkans and Beyond. As editors, we would therefore like first to thank Zilka Spahi iljak and TPO Foundation for initiating the event and envisioning a wide impact for the future of the region. Others at TPO Foundation in Sarajevo made the practical arrangements run smoothly. We are grateful for the conference participants willingness to share their own work and foster an interactive and intimate setting where we engaged with traumas great challenges to us as scholars and activists from all over the world. We wish we could have included all voices in this volume. We also wish to thank our blind reviewers, the editors of this series and Routledge for valuing this topic, and TPO Foundation for entrusting us with the editing of this book.
