1. Trinity College Dublin Trauma, Trust and Healing Dynamics of Reconciliation – Week 8 Dr. David Tombs

2. Trinity College Dublin An important preliminary This exercise in personal reflection on healing after conflict is for analytic purposes, rather than therapeutic purposes. It would be unwise to focus on any experiences that you feel are still very painful.

3. Trinity College Dublin Personal experiences of healing Can you think of a personal experience of conflict that was followed by: a relatively easy and successful healing process? a difficult but ultimately successful healing process? a partial but uncompleted healing process?

4. Trinity College Dublin Reflecting on the experience When you think about these experiences what difficulties and/or barriers did you find to healing? what role did the re-establishment of trust play in the process? are there any experiences which you think are so traumatic that post-conflict healing could never be possible?

5. Trinity College Dublin Principles The IDEA Handbook suggests three broad principles to guide strategies aimed at healing: Understanding the context Using the local resources Linking healing with broader reconstruction programmes David Bloomfield et al. (eds) Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2003) p. 80.

6. Trinity College Dublin A case study: background Imagine that you as a group have been commissioned by an international NGO to act as consultant on healing initiatives for a specific conflict of your own choosing (eg Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Darfur, Colombia, Kashmir, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Former Yugoslavia) …

7. Trinity College Dublin Case study: questions What advice would you give the international NGO based on these principles? What problems would you suggest that they anticipate? Would you want to amend or modify any of these principles? Would you want to add any further principles?