30 Dec 2015
Dealing with Painful Memories and Violent Pasts. Towards a Framework for Contextual Understanding
Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - lead article
Reflects on the role of different approaches for dealing with painful memories and violent pasts. The author explores how different dimensions – interpersonal and intergroup relations, memories and identities at the individual and collective level – relate to one another. He also addresses how one can constructively address victim identities and cultures of victimhood that may stem from painful or traumatic experiences in light of his work in South Africa and Northern Ireland, among other locales.
Authors
Brandon Hamber
- Dealing with Painful Memories: Walking the (Thin) Line between War and its Aftermath. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment
Olivera Simić. 2015
- Working on the Psychosocial Gap: Challenges, Hopes, Perspectives. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment
David Becker. 2015
- Recalling South Africa – Memory Work across Time and Space. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment
Undine Whande. 2015
- Dealing with the Past in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict: The Power of Narratives, Spaces and Rituals. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment
Andrea Zemskov-Zuege. 2015
- Grappling with the Stranglehold of the Past over Time: A Response. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - final reflection
Brandon Hamber. 2016
- Collective Trauma and Resilience: Key Concepts in Transforming War-related Identities. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment
Cordula Reimann, Ursula König. 2017
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