Olij, J. (2005). Trauma awareness, healing, and group counselling in secondary schools. Intervention, 3(1), 51-57. Ten years after war and genocide in Rwanda took almost a million lives; trauma still exists on a large scale. This is especially true... Read more
Reconciliation
Galtung, J. (2005). Twelve creative ways to foster reconciliation after violence. Intervention, 3(3), 222-234. Based on his experience as a mediator in many conflict areas, the author discusses twelve approaches to rconciliation. He concludes that no single approach is... Read more
Richters, J. M., Dekker, C., & Jonge, K. D. (2005). 'Reconciliation in the aftermath of violent conflict in Rwanda'. Intervention. 3(3), 203-221. Chicago Reconciliation in the aftermath of the history of violent conflict in Rwanda is approached as part... Read more
Le Touze, D., Silove, D., & Zwi, A. (2005). Can there be healing without justice? Lessons from the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. Intervention, 3(3), 192-202. Truth and reconciliation processes initiated in post-conflict countries have... Read more
Bar-On, D. (2005). Empirical criteria for reconciliation in practice. Intervention, 3(3), 180-191. This article illustrates the opinion that a bottom-up reconciliation requires, in addition to a top-down legal and political agreement between the parties, a complementary educational and social-psychological... Read more
Becker, D. (2005). Reconciliation–The wrong track to peace?. Intervention, 3(3), 167-179. The article discusses the shortcomings of the current theory and practice of reconciliation and explores the possibilities of addressing the complex social and psychological processes involved in dealing... Read more
Ley, K. (2006). Bread and roses: supporting refugee women in a multicultural group. Intervention, 4(1), 47-52. This field report describes the support and reconciliation work in a weekly multicultural and multilingual therapeutic group of African refugee women in a... Read more
Stark, L. (2006). Cleansing the wounds of war: An examination of traditional healing, psychosocial health and reintegration in Sierra Leone. Intervention, 4(3), 206-218. Traditional healing ceremonies have been lauded as an effective and integral aspect of psychosocial healing and... Read more
Harris, D. A. (2007). Pathways to embodied empathy and reconciliation after atrocity: Former boy soldiers in a dance/movement therapy group in Sierra Leone. Intervention, 5(3), 203-231. A time limited dance/movement therapy group, facilitated by adult males, provided creative movement... Read more
Moor, M. (2007). A new start, an open end. The reintegration of individual demobilized combatants in Colombia. Intervention, 5(3), 191-202. This article is the result of a study carried out by IKV Pax Christi, a government programme that aims... Read more
