“…Thematic analysis has been applied in contexts as varied as business (Christ, 1970;Gupta & Levenburg, 2010;Nicholas & McDowall, 2012) to social work (Clark et al, 2023;Labra et al, 2020;O'Connor, 2020), and from military (Hale, 2012;Rafferty et al, 2013;Tunnell, 2015) to peace studies (Almusaly, 2017;De la Rey & McKay, 2006;Matusitz, 2022). Understanding the context is important as it potentially influences communication style and approach (Reboulet & Jackson, 2021). The thematic analysis for this study followed the following procedural steps.…”