Overview
- Presents key issues of the lives of rural people living in extreme poverty in the aftermath of political violence in a developing country context
- Provides a global analysis of suffering, including the nature of suffering and its meaning for humanity
- Addresses the “long-term impact and psychosocial consequences of political violence” and the “deadening effects of historical amnesia”
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Complexities of Human Suffering
- Understanding Human Suffering
- Political Violence in Peru
- Aftermath of Political Violence
- Psychic Wounds of Political Violence
- World Struggling with Post-Conflict Scenarios
- Governement and Human Suffering
- Effects of Suffering and Reparation
- Methodological Concepts on Empathy and Participation
- Processing the Experience of Political Violence
- Key Traumatic Events in the Rural Andean Communities
- Witnessing Violence Done to Others
- Integrating Individual and Social Suffering
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Timothy James Bowyer is an independent researcher with more than 30 years expertise working in conflict affected rural areas of Mexico, Central and South America. He was Regional Manager, Latin America for an aid agency responsible for the management and development of long term primary health care programmes for rural communities in developing countries affected by conflict, discrimination and remoteness. He holds an MSc in Development Administration and Planning (University of Bristol) and a PhD focusing on health policy in the Peruvian Andes (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London). He was formerly Lecturer in International Health at Swansea University, UK (2001-2011), since when he has lectured on the trauma of war and other conflict related issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Suffering and Reparation
Book Subtitle: The Aftermath of Political Violence in the Peruvian Andes
Authors: Timothy James Bowyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98983-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98982-2Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98983-9Published: 01 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 338
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Terrorism and Political Violence, Personality and Social Psychology