Organization: Academy for Conflict Transformation
Registration deadline: 22 Apr 2016
Starting date: 17 May 2016
Ending date: 19 May 2016
Recognising trauma, fear and grief during projects – and how to deal with them
War and violence can cause major traumas in the people they affect. This can result in symptoms such as the inability to form social relationships or to build trust, or in despair or fear. Recognising these, interpreting them correctly and finding ways of dealing with them, even without pyschotherapeutic training, form an important component of peacebuilding work. Trauma is often ignored or misinterpreted as a lack of motivation or a cultural peculiarity. In addition, peace experts also run the risk of becoming traumatised themselves due to the intensive contact with traumatised people. This is known as “secondary traumatisation”.
In this seminar, participants will learn to recognise whether they are able to contribute to making a psychosocial improvement to the affected people, or if and when professional therapeutic help is needed.
Contents:
- Current debate on trauma in international peace and conflict work
- Trauma, fear and grief as key experiences in conflict regions: the main psychosocial concepts
- Intergenerational and systemic dimensions of trauma, fear and grief
- Approaches to psychosocial trauma work in humanitarian aid and peacebuilding work
- Dealing with fear, grief and trauma in designing, planning and implementing peace projects
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How to register:
Please register at:https://www.forumzfd-akademie.de/en/