The Routledge International Handbook of Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding

‘This Handbook offers a significant advance and platform that deepens our understanding of trauma, healing, and peacebuilding. I say this for three reasons. First, the extraordinary list of authors are among the most experienced practitioners who have committed to a vocational lifetime facing and living with the challenges of trauma in settings of protracted conflict. Their focus on trauma-responsive centers action and practical strategies cultivating constructive change and sustained healing. Second, this Handbook brings these learnings and strategies via authors who are from and engaged with an extraordinary breadth of geographic contexts and cultural backgrounds that offer views and evidence-based experience far beyond Western dominant models. And finally, these chapters capture the cutting edges of practices from the expressive arts to facing intergenerational and collective trauma that truly give meaning to the notion of committing to comprehensive and integrated approaches to peacebuilding.’

John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Sara Clarke-Habibi is a peacebuilding specialist with 25 years of experience as a practitioner, researcher, educator, curriculum developer, trainer, facilitator, and advisor. Focussed on violence-affected and post-conflict environments, she works thematically on issues of trauma-sensitivity, MHPSS, conflict memory and identity, peace psychology, social healing, and intergroup reconciliation.

Cordula Reimann has worked for 30 years as a process and dialogue facilitator, trainer, researcher, consultant, and coach on conflict sensitivity, conflict transformation, trauma, and gender. As a practitioner-scholar, Cordula has worked with and for local grassroots movements, mainly in South Asia and the Middle East, international and Swiss and German governmental and non-governmental peacebuilding, development, and aid organisations.