Promoting healing, enabling reconciliation and cultivating
transformation in countries affected by mass violence
remains a pressing question facing the global community.
This class will explore the effects of collective violence,
such as genocide, ethnic, inter- and intra-state conflict,
and the recovery process. Focus will be on understanding
the concepts of trauma and resiliency and exploring
mechanisms for healing, fostering reconciliation, and
transforming the trauma of war at multiple levels
of analysis. Students will become familiar with current
conceptual frameworks in the fields of trauma studies,
social and political psychology, and international
development related to these topics. Both historical and
current cases of collective violence will be used to
consider the effects of violence and the healing
process at social, communal, and individual levels.
Students will gain familiarity with and consider the
challenges to and effectiveness of healing, reconciliation,
and transformation processes that have been
undertaken in post-conflict countries.
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