Dealing with trauma of a war through education for peace
This blog post sheds some light on how peace education could transform social trauma in the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina with lessons for other post-war societies. Societies affected by social trauma undergo significant transformations, typically involving collective identity restructurings. These may entail conscious efforts to ‚close the chapter‘ on the shared grievances of the […]
Is it all down to trauma?
Taking up some of the resistance against the term of collective trauma, Cordula Reimann & Ursula König discuss why collective and transgenerational trauma are relevant and should be a key concept for development and peacebuilding/conflict transformation practitioners and practices. Since we published the article “Closing a gap in conflict transformation: Understanding collective and transgenerational trauma”, […]
