Healing and Peacebuilding after War (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution)

This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book begins with a simple premise: trauma that is not transformed is transferred. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights from academics, peace practitioners and trauma experts, this book examines the limitations of our current strategies for promoting healing and peacebuilding after war while offering inroads into best practices to prevent future violence through psychosocial trauma recovery and the healing of memories. The contributions create a conversation that allows readers to critically rethink the deeper roots and mechanisms of trauma created by the war.

Collectively, the authors provide strategic recommendations to policymakers, peace practitioners, donors and international organizations engaged in work in Bosnia and Herzegovina – strategies that can be applied to other countries rebuilding after war.

This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, social psychology, Balkan politics and International Relations in general.

Julianne Funk is Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, and Managing Editor of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Nancy Good is a trauma therapist and international therapist consultant with The KonTerra Group and Portland Trauma Recovery. For 20 years she was faculty with Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, USA.

Marie E. Berry is Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA.