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Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War / Sharon Alane Abramowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 8 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812246261
  • 9780812209938
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09666209/04 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1027.L7 .A273 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War -- 2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions -- 3. Trauma and the New Normal -- 4. Individual Interventions -- 5. The GBV Proxy -- 6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation -- 7. Redemption Time -- 8. The Healers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into postconflict humanitarian health care delivery.Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War -- 2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions -- 3. Trauma and the New Normal -- 4. Individual Interventions -- 5. The GBV Proxy -- 6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation -- 7. Redemption Time -- 8. The Healers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into postconflict humanitarian health care delivery.Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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