Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia: 25 by Stella Sacipa-Rodriguez,Maritza Montero

This edited quantity summarizes the paintings of a research team, called Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace that accompanies and helps sufferers of socio-political violence in Columbia. The individual chapters specialize in the continuing violence within the Colombian context, a posh and dynamic zone during which numerous teams (drug traffickers, nationwide military, guerrilla warring parties, self-defence teams) were engaged in prepared violence for greater than 60 years. Emphasis is put on the mental effects of violence and diverse types of psychosocial help that psychologists were supplying to the sufferers of violence. Central to their paintings is the proposal of "accompanying" those that were sufferers of violence, hearing them, attractive them in discussion and dealing jointly to reinforce the assets of victims. The restoration of person and collective stories of atrocities is mentioned as an enormous road for therapeutic and for the empowerment of people and teams. The cohesion between sufferers creates possibilities on the grassroots point to pursue fact, show perpetrators of violence, search public acknowledgment and achieve social justice. For perpetrators of violence and individuals of armed teams, the publication addresses a number of psychosocial concerns on the topic of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating former opponents, together with little ones, into society.   during the ebook, within the spirit of peace psychology, the researchers are engaged in a kind of praxis that's cognizant of the broader geohistorical context during which sufferers and perpetrators are embedded and the dialectical courting among micro and macro-level occasions and alter. Researchers in Latin American experiences, peace psychology, social justice and transitional justice, will locate this quantity to be a good resource.