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Community-based Warviews, Resiliency and Healing. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 376
This book explores the phenomenological realities of
violence and trauma, resiliency and healing among
the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in central
Mindanao and the Karen refugees on the Thai-Burmese
border. They came as a result of constant fighting
between government military and minority armed
opposition groups, causing massive displacement of
the civil population.
The book highlights that warviews, defined as
people's conceptualizations and articulations of
their experience of war and displacement, inform
resiliency and that resiliency, which constitutes
people’s capacity to survive, addresses people's
warviews towards healing. Healing connotes
physiological and psycho-emotional, relational,
economic, and political implications.
My study concludes that no matter how victimized
they feel about themselves, the IDPs in Mindanao and
the Karen refugees, with further assistance from the
international community and their respective
governments, are capable of naming and responding to
their individual and collective sense of reality and
they actively participate in their own healing and
community building.
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