Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hamber, Brandon (Editor), Gallagher, Elizabeth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Peace Psychology Book Series,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

The book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding offers a template for those dealing with the aftermath of armed conflict to look at peacebuilding through a psychosocial lens. This volume, and the case studies that are in it, starts from the premise that armed conflict and the political violence...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Exploring how context matters in addressing the impact of armed conflict
• Chapter 2: Transforming conflict, changing society: Psychosocial programming in Indian Jammu and Kashmir
• Chapter 3: Addressing the psychosocial needs of young men: The case of Northern Ireland
• Chapter 4: Rethinking psychosocial programming in post-war Sri Lanka
• Chapter 5: Creative methodologies as a resource for Mayan women’s protagonism
• Chapter 6: Remembering, healing and telling: community-initiated approaches to trauma care in South Africa
• Chapter 7: Legacies of war, healing, justice and social transformation in Mozambique
• Chapter 8: Death and dying in my Jerusalem: The power of liminality
• Chapter 9: Towards contextual psychosocial practice.