Peace and Reconciliation Processes

Seidel, Timothy

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“…If our case for T&R is accepted, the obvious question is: what next? The first thing to say is that T&R processes must be adapted to context, not just taken "off the shelf" (Seidel and Abu-Nimer, 2015). Therefore, the form they take will differ according to different local contexts, services and needs.…”

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“…T&R processes are a form of "transitional" justice aimed at forging newly respectful relations and restitution for harm and wrongdoing. These are based on an optimistic view of human relationships and belief that social change is possible (Seidel and Abu-Nimer, 2015). They differ from victim-offender restorative interventions as they operate at a community level (Androff, 2010).…”

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Exploring the case for truth and reconciliation in mental health services

Spandler

McKeown

2017

MHRJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the case for a truth and reconciliation (T&R) process in the context of mental health services. Design/methodology/approach The approach is a conceptual review of T&R approaches; a consideration of why they are important; and how they might be applied in the context of mental health services and psychiatry. First, the paper sets out a case for T&R in psychiatry, giving some recent examples of how this might work in practice. Then it outlines potential objections which complicate any simplistic adoption of T&R in this context. Findings In the absence of an officially sanctioned T&R process a grassroots reparative initiative in mental health services may be an innovative bottom-up approach to transitional justice. This would bring together service users, survivors and refusers of services, with staff who work/ed in them, to begin the work of healing the hurtful effects of experiences in the system. Originality/value This is the first paper in a peer-reviewed journal to explore the case for T&R in mental health services. The authors describe an innovative T&R process as an important transitional step towards accomplishing reparation and justice by acknowledging the breadth and depth of service user and survivor grievances. This may be a precondition for effective alliances between workers and service users/survivors. As a result, new forms of dialogic communication and horizontal democracy might emerge that could sustain future alliances and prefigure the social relations necessary for more humane mental health services.

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Exploring the case for truth and reconciliation in mental health services

Spandler

McKeown

2017

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“…These are based on an optimistic view of human relationships and the belief that social change is possible. [54] This process would not be about pointing fingers or blame. It would be about creating a space for survivors like us to come together with service managers and staff to authentically express the harm that has already occurred in services.…”

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New Ways of Supporting Child Abuse and Sexual Violence Survivors: a social justice call for an innovative commissioning pathway

Lomani¹

2022

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This report outlines the needs of child sexual abuse and sexual violence survivors in relation to the current conceptualisation and provision for 'personality disorder'. It has been collaboratively written by a socially diverse collective of survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual violence (SV). Many of us have been forced to accept a personality disorder diagnosis and we wanted to come together to share our experiences and to propose less harmful approaches to future service provision for our population.We are asking for trauma-specific pathways, separate from personality disorder (or any re-named personality disorder) services. As a group, we have been profoundly harmed by both the application of the personality disorder construct, i.e. the ways in which services treat us as a result of the construct, and also by the treatment pathways which are harmful for our population.As a group, we suffer from high levels of dissociation and trauma specifically related to our CSA/SV experiences. These have long been neglected because the only current provision for people like us sits within the personality disorder (PD) field.In addition to this, we are bringing attention to the harm caused by current behaviourist approaches and systems that criminalise our distress rather than provide alternative support.We explain how LGBTQ+ survivors are being doubly failed by services in that they are having their sexuality and gender identity understood and pathologised as a symptom of 'PD' leading to increased shame and self-hatred.Ultimately, this report highlights how we have been failed and re-traumatised by state systems that are supposed to protect and support us when we were at our most vulnerable. It also shows how 'PD' has been used to silence and reframe our experiences. We finish by making recommendations for new trauma-specific pathways and services that are completely removed from a personality disorder frame of understanding.

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Religion and the postsecular challenge in peacebuilding and reconciliation.

Seidel

2019

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Peace and Reconciliation Processes

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Exploring the case for truth and reconciliation in mental health services

Exploring the case for truth and reconciliation in mental health services

New Ways of Supporting Child Abuse and Sexual Violence Survivors: a social justice call for an innovative commissioning pathway

Religion and the postsecular challenge in peacebuilding and reconciliation.

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