This work examines trauma, identity, security,
education, and development as issues of critical importance to peacebuilding
and social reconstruction after large-scale violence. This violence takes the
form of war, mass-killings, and genocide, as well as structural violence that
has humiliated and impoverished millions of people across the globe.
Transitional justice, leadership, religion, and the arts are other crucial
issues that are included in this analysis of violence and its transformation.
The book explores how each issue can be independently addressed for
transformational purposes, but argues for their active interdependence in order
to more effectdvely help individuals, communities, and societies emerge from
violence and begin the rebuilding process. Peacebuilding for Traumatized
Societies examines these issues in theoretical and practical terms through case
studies and descriptions of training and problem-solving procedures in Rwanda,
the Balkans, Columbia, and the Philippines.
