Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, not Transmitting, Trauma

Foreword by Robert C. Barnes
Foreword by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
Foreword by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Foreword by Yashwant Sinha
Preface
Permissions
List of Previous Publications
Praise for Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Determining the Separation Between Perpetrator and Victim: Importance of Intergenerational Family Communication
3 In the Arena of Textbook Wars, Education Can Be Deployed to Build Common Ground Between Opposing Forces
4 Empowering Pedagogy: Dialogue and Building Common Ground
5 Education Conscientizes About Social and Political Conditions
6 Participatory Educational Methodology; Healing of Memories; Logotherapy
7 Finding Purpose and Meaning in the Sturm and Drang of the Unredressed Agonies of the Past
8 Conclusion
Appendix I
Creating a Space for Encounter and Remembrance
The Healing of Memories Process
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Short History of the Healing of Memories Process
Organizational Profile of the Institute for Healing of Memories
The Healing of Memories Research Study
Objectives of the Study7
Research Base and Limitations
Methodology
Research Questions
The Healing of Memories Workshop Model in the Western Cape
Setting
Participants
Motivations and Expectations
Facilitators
The Workshop Program Friday
Saturday
Drawing Exercise
Storytelling
Discussion of Themes and Questions
Sunday
The Clay Symbol
The Celebration/Liturgy
Follow-Up Meeting
Key Concepts in the Healing of Memories Process
Every South African Has a Story to Tell (HOM)
Every South African Has Been Damaged by Apartheid (HOM)
From the Heart, Not from the Head: A Non-intellectual Mode
A “Journey” toward Healing: the One-Step Philosophy (HOM)
Addressing the Psychological, Emotional, and Spiritual Consequences of the Apartheid System (HOM)
“Getting the Poison Out”: Release of Emotions Through Storytelling
The Redemption Motive: Remembrance as a Form of Celebration
“From Victim to Victor”: Forgiveness as Empowerment
Encounter of the “Other” through Listening: A Collective Healing Process?
Sketching Some of the Impacts of Healing of Memories Workshops27
Opening Up
Telling the Stories and Listening to One An-Other
Rediscovering a “Common Humanity”?
Meeting Across Physical Boundaries
Bridging Separate Realities? Socioeconomic and Cultural Divides
Performing the New South Africa—A Non-Racial Society?
A Sense of Belonging—Initiating Citizenship?
Healing
Getting the Poison out—Opening Wounds?
Anger and Forgiveness
Religion and Spirituality
A Once-off Encounter—Knowing that Things Could Be Different?
Long-Term Engagement—Changing Practice
Creating a Space? Challenges and Potential of the HOM Process
Testimonial Dialogue
Enacting Conflict
Creating Community?
Thoughts for the Future
Making a Difference
Opening the Wounds and Follow-Up
Creating Networks
Support System for Facilitators
Participant Target Groups
Documentation of People's Stories
Conclusions But No Closure
References
Appendix II
Training a New Generation of Peacebuilders
Beneath the Surface of Religious and Cultural Conflicts
Training for Transformation
Testing the Model
The Journey Forward
Loyalty to Life Itself
Bibliography
Index