The Right to Home: Domicide as a Violation of Child and Family Rights in the Context of Political Violence

Akesson, Bree; Basso, Andrew R.; Denov, Myriam

doi:10.1111/chso.12174

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“…For example, children can also experience the home as a source of uncertainty and anxiety (Akesson, 2014 ). Palestine has been described as a country characterized by ‘domicide,’ which is a consequence of the settler colonialist violence of the neighbouring and occupying Israeli state (Akesson et al, 2016 ). Most families experienced direct or indirect violations, including damage or destruction to their houses that render a safe space into a site of danger and uncertainty.…”

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Human (in)security and psychological well‐being in Palestinian children living amidst military violence: A qualitative participatory research using interactive maps

Veronese

Cavazzoni

Fiorini³

et al. 2021

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Background: Research has widely evidenced the effects of war and political violence on the functioning of children, with a great accord in diagnosing children's psychological burdens related to their exposure to violence. Yet, within this literature, the influence of the chronic sense of insecurity on their psychological functioning during and after hostilities remains unexplored.Methods: The present study aimed at exploring interrelated relationships between the perceived insecurity and the children's psychological well-being and their adjustment to trauma. Based on drawings and walk-along interviews with 75 Palestinian children, residents of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, we offer an analysis of human security-related risks and protective factors that contribute to either promoting or undermining the child's psychological functioning in a context characterized by chronic instability and political violence.Results: A complex network of sources of security and insecurity emerged from the narratives depicting an ecological portrait encompassing the determinants of children's mental health and psychological functioning. The TCA led to the identification of eight main themes: school and associativism; social relations and house as a source of security/insecurity; military occupation as a source of insecurity; national and political identity as a source of safety; mosque and spirituality as a source of safety/unsafety; environment as a source of security/insecurity; and mental health.Discussion: An approach encompassing human security as an explicative model can help in exhaustively portraying the complexity of the Palestinian children's suffering and their competence in adjusting to their traumatic reality. The study draws attention to social, political, environmental and economic determinants of children psychological well-being.

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confidence: 99%

Human (in)security and psychological well‐being in Palestinian children living amidst military violence: A qualitative participatory research using interactive maps

Veronese

Cavazzoni

Fiorini³

et al. 2021

Child

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“…In developing a greater responsiveness to how place influences well-being, we must dedicate more scholarly and practical attention to how place experiences are intertwined with dynamics of power and privileges, particularly within settler colonialism (Hiller and Carlson, 2018). In so doing, we may mobilise our profession to better understand the importance of, and to actively support, indigenous selfdetermination, for, as the women in our study asserted, it is not only place but the right to place-and to safety and self-determination in place-that is fundamental to individual and collective well-being (Akesson et al, 2016;Cummins et al, 2007;de Leeuw, 2018).…”

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Place as a Social Determinant of Health: Narratives of Trauma and Homeland among Palestinian Women

Sousa

Kemp

El-Zuhairi³

2019

The British Journal of Social Work

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Despite calls for greater social work attention to the centrality of place in human life, the profession has yet to hone frameworks that fully capture the role of place in individual–collective identity and well-being. To move this agenda forward, this article draws on data from a series of focus groups to explore the placed experiences of women in Palestine. Analytically, it is informed by critical place inquiry, which emphasises the deeply interactional relationships between people and places, views place-centred practice and research as catalysts for active responses to the spatialised nature of power and injustice, and focuses centrally on the geographic and spatial dynamics of colonisation, and particularly settler colonialism, as key determinants of individual and collective well-being. Women’s spatial narratives revolved around individual–collective identity and sovereignty, focusing in particular on three interdependent factors: freedom of movement; possession and dispossession; and continuity of place. Findings also illuminated spatial practices of resistance by which women defend and promote identity and sovereignty. We conclude with recommendations for more explicit, critically informed attention to place in social work practice, education and research.

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“…Second, our findings bolster the notion that destruction of place—especially family homes and infrastructure—undermines well-being. Findings related to the role of place within both vulnerability and resiliency should inform advocacy and treatment of political violence on a systemic level as we understand more deeply the health effects of so-called collateral damage (Akesson et al, 2016; Sousa, 2013; Sousa et al, 2019).…”

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“No safe place”: Applying the transactional stress and coping model to active warfare.

Sousa¹,

Veronese²

2022

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: The mental health consequences of political violence arise within active, dynamic processes of appraisal and coping. Understanding the psychological sequela of war is an urgent task; yet, we have little on the ground exploration of the quotidian events within and the accompanying psychological responses of the totalizing experience of war. Using a transactional-based model of stress and coping, in this study, we use a novel method-retrospective diaries-to explore the shifting, unpredictable, and traumatic nature of life during a major military operation. Method: Our sample consisted of 21 Palestinian women recruited via an intervention for teachers in Gaza. Women's retrospective chronological diaries were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Our analysis drew out the cyclical process of coping within political violence, demonstrating five essential temporal dimensions: warning; bombings, with injuries, death, and destruction; reintegrating within flight and resettlement; ongoing political insecurity within precarious truces and rampant loss and destruction; and persevering: restarting life amid pervasive trauma. Conclusion: Our findings draw attention to vital temporal dimensions and the cyclical nature of stress and coping that underlie the sequela of mental health in a highly charged context. In tracing warfare, its psychosocial consequences, and distinct patterns of emotional and logistical survival, our study contributes to the growing field of psychological epidemiology of war. Clinical Impact StatementThe transactional model of coping is often used to help understand the complex sequalae resulting from stress and trauma. Here, we demonstrate the importance of using that framework while prioritizing the cyclical and collective nature of coping within the immense and ongoing stress of political violence. Through building on the strengths and strategies women elucidate in our study, we are better able to leverage these protective factors in interventions aimed at ameliorating the psychological effects of war. Furthermore, in demonstrating the complex and lasting mental health issues related to not only acute assaults but also ongoing stressors related to political and economic siege, our study bolsters the movement to engage in efforts to prevent war and occupation.

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The Right to Home: Domicide as a Violation of Child and Family Rights in the Context of Political Violence

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Human (in)security and psychological well‐being in Palestinian children living amidst military violence: A qualitative participatory research using interactive maps

Human (in)security and psychological well‐being in Palestinian children living amidst military violence: A qualitative participatory research using interactive maps

Place as a Social Determinant of Health: Narratives of Trauma and Homeland among Palestinian Women

“No safe place”: Applying the transactional stress and coping model to active warfare.

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