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  title info:
    title: Transforming Societies after Political Violence
    sub title: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health
  name:
    name part: Hamber, Brandon.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 249 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: It is a momentous day for a nation when war is over or a brutal regime ends. For victims and survivors of political atrocities, it is also a time to process trauma, to anticipate the future, to be heard—and to be healed. Transforming Societies after Political Violence offers a template for those tasked with providing truth, justice, reconciliation, and healing. This interdisciplinary study identifies complex relationships between recovery from political violence and the psychological processes that accompany widespread social change, showing how these can be integrated to strengthen both individual and society. Author Brandon Hamber draws on his extensive experience in South Africa and comparative examples from elsewhere to examine the centrality of mental health issues in transitional justice, and the social, cultural, and identity issues involved in meeting the needs of victims. In discussing reparations (what the author terms "repairing the irreparable"), the power of ambivalence, and especially concepts of closure, he eloquently sets out professionals’ roles in helping survivors move beyond the toxic past without covering it up or becoming mired in it. Among the critical areas covered: The vital groundwork that must be made before reconciliation can occur. Creating context-driven approaches to political and social trauma. Assessing truth, documenting the past, and avoiding re-traumatization. The role of mental health professionals in truth commission processes. Survivors as agents for justice, from civic participation to giving public witness. Reparations—symbolic meaning, national value, personal benefits. Promoting reconciliation and preventing further violence. A work that holds profound insight into the meaning of "doing justice," Transforming Transitional Societies is required reading for social and peace psychologists, as well as students and researchers of conflict and peace studies, transitional justice, and intergroup and international relations.
  table of contents: Looking Back, Moving Forward -- Miracles, Trauma and the Truth Commission -- A Tidal Wave of Emotion -- A Place for Healing -- Ambivalence and Closure -- Reparations and Paying for the Past -- Doing Justice -- Assessing Truth and Reconciliation -- Truth Telling and Violence Prevention -- Transforming Transitional Societies.
  note: by Brandon Hamber.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cross-cultural psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cross Cultural Psychology
  classification: BF1-990
  classification: 155.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Peace Psychology Book Series
  identifier: 9780387894270
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89427-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151120170506.0
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