Binalakshmi Nepram Mentschel, Women’s role in Micro-Disarmament in India’s North East, WISCOMP Discussion Paper 21 (2011)

Ashima Kaul and Seema Kakran, Symbol and Substance: Exploring Inter Community Dialogue in Ladakh, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XVIII (2011)

Seema Kakran, Competing Realities: Identity, Culture and Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XIX (2011)


Psycho-Social Healing

Under the auspices of the Athwaas initiative, WISCOMP has facilitated several trauma healing workshops for its Samanbal members, both in the Kashmir valley as well as in the Jammu region, to enable participants to gain a better intellectual understanding of the relationship between trauma work and peacebuilding work, as well as to recognize the many dimensions of trauma. These workshops broadly attempt to enable participants to:

• Understand the need to reconcile the micro levels—personal and interpersonal—with the macro levels of social change that arise out of political violence

• Understand how trauma manifests itself in varied fashions, psychologically, socially, physiologically, spiritually

• Develop or restore healthy human relationships and initiate processes such as community reconciliation

• Reinvest in the notion of “agency” and how the samanbal spaces can be an instrument of change and transformation.

• Refresh and invigorate the notion of a “samanbal” as a space for healing and reconciliation and collectively image a multitude of activities that can be undertaken in this space and promote the development of support groups that employ a facilitated process to heal individuals in the context of a group


 
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