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- Lays at the intersection of peacebuilding, global mental health, and development
- Goes beyond mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to a holistic approach centered on healing
- Builds the approach/theory from practice around the world
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace (BRIEFSSECUR, volume 39)
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The book goes beyond mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to a holistic approach centered on healing. The book lays at the intersection of peacebuilding, global mental health, and development. In many parts of the world, entire generations live in chronic violence—just surviving. The exposure to violence has long-lasting effects which are not well accounted for in conflict analysis, stabilization efforts, peacebuilding, and governance initiatives. Extreme exposure to violence, abuse, neglect, and marginalization negatively affects levels of resilience and the ability of affecting the transition from violence to peace. A healing-centered peacebuilding approach requires fundamental changes in how systems are designed, organizations function, and practitioners engage with people, their communities, and their institutions. Key elements of the practice-based approach included inclusion, customization and contextualization, breaking cycles of violence, systems thinking, and trauma-informed tools. The approach considers emotional distress to be a critical variable in violent conflict and instability. Trauma is not only a consequence of violence, but also a cause of instability.
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Book Title: Healing is What Makes Peace Work
Book Subtitle: A Healing-Centered Peacebuilding Approach
Authors: Angi Yoder-Maina
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05251-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05250-7Published: 14 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05251-4Published: 13 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2193-3162
Series E-ISSN: 2193-3170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 124
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, Clinical Psychology, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Employee Health and Wellbeing