Healing Past Violence: Traumatic Assumptions and Therapeutic Interventions in War and Reconciliation

Moon, Claire

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“…Through this ethos, ideas, claims and practices of psychologists, therapists and psychiatrists permeate popular culture, politics and social and educational policy settings and create new common sense assumptions about the state of the self, and accompanying vocabularies and practices (e.g. Brunila 2012;Durodie 2009;Ecclestone 2011;Ecclestone and Hayes 2008;Ecclestone et al 2010;Furedi 2003;Lau 2012;Moon 2009;Nolan 1998Nolan , 2008Pupavac 2001Pupavac , 2009Wright 2008). As I argue below, a cultural therapeutic ethos is integral to the current slip from discourses and associated practices of emotional and psychological well-being into a revival of an old discourse of character, and broader government interest in new ideas from behavioural science.…”

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From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’

Ecclestone

2012

Research Papers in Education

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It is difficult to challenge a strong consensus that governments must intervene in a worsening crisis of emotional and psychological well-being. The article relates rising estimates of problems and corresponding calls for intervention in educational settings to the increasingly blurred boundaries between a cultural therapeutic ethos, academic research and policy. The recent revival of an old discourse of 'character' reinforces a search for better measurement as the basis for behaviour change strategies reflected in government interest in new ideas from behavioural science. In response to C. Wright Mills' injunction that a sociological imagination should try to understand how social change reflects changing images of the human subject, the article explores the educational implications of these development. It argues that the depiction of well-being and character as a set of behaviours and the parallel drive to measure them are rooted in a diminished view of an essential human vulnerability. This legitimises the imposition of psychological interventions that avoid moral and political questions about the nature of well-being and character and the conditions needed to develop them.

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From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’

Ecclestone

2012

Research Papers in Education

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“…The way in which institutions interpret and incorporate important values coming from this doctrine, such as the abolition of the racial rule and the recognition of equality of all human beings, is crucial for the emergence of a shared conception of political justice. According to some scholars, this was not the case in South Africa (Marx 2002;Moon 2009). For Christoph Marx (2002), for example, from a "strategy of survival" the ubuntu doctrine has been transformed into a "nationalist ideology" (2002,52).…”

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From a Culture of Civility to Deliberative Reconciliation in Deeply Divided Societies

Gentile¹

2018

Journal of Social Philosophy

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“…This follows from the increasing influence of international psychological and therapeutic assumptions about the nature and role of memory that now govern transitional justice strategies (Moon 2009). These therapeutic assumptions are applied by civil society groups within Cambodia's attempts to reckon with its history of political violence, and the CSD public forums were specifically organized into two sessions: in the morning emphasis was placed on 'justice and history', and in the afternoon the discussion shifted to focus upon 'reconciliation and healing'.…”

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Governing memory: Justice, reconciliation and outreach at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Manning

2011

Memory Studies

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This article explores how devolved outreach work for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia works to govern the past as it acts to reshape and reframe potentially ambivalent and conflicting memories of political violence. The article specifically examines an example of outreach targeting a former Khmer Rouge community that has been situated as a key party in Cambodia's attempts to realize 'justice' and 'reconciliation'. The article analyses the sites and crucibles of memory that outreach work for the court utilizes in licensing a particular reading of Cambodia's experiences of war and genocide. First, the article shows how museum and memorial sites and technologies produce acquiescent, ambivalent and resistant effects among outreach subjects. Second, the article then considers the consolidation and contestation of memory at a public forum event, noting the ways in which outreach attempts to disarm and reconstitute memorial accounts that conflict with the officially sanctioned reading of Cambodia's past political violence. Whilst acknowledging the unique characteristics of the case, I argue that it is illustrative of the various ways in which Cambodians might question the legitimacy of the Extraordinary Chambers.

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Healing Past Violence: Traumatic Assumptions and Therapeutic Interventions in War and Reconciliation

Cited by 83 publications

References 32 publications

From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’

From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’

From a Culture of Civility to Deliberative Reconciliation in Deeply Divided Societies

Governing memory: Justice, reconciliation and outreach at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

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