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Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia
This edited volume summarizes the work of a research group, called Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace that accompanies and supports victims of socio-political violence in Columbia. The individual chapters focus on the ongoing violence in the Colombian context, a complex and dynamic area in which various groups (drug traffickers, national armed forces, guerrilla fighters, self-defence groups) have been engaged in organized violence for more than 60 years. Emphasis is placed on the psychological consequences of violence and various forms of psychosocial support that psychologists have been providing to the victims of violence. Central to their work is the notion of "accompanying" those who hav...
Transitioning to Peace
This edited volume highlights how individuals, communities and nations are addressing a history of protracted violence in the transition to peace. This path is not linear or straightforward. The volume integrates research from peace processes and practices spanning over 20 countries. Four thematic areas unite these contributions: formal transitional justice mechanisms, social movements and collective action, community-driven processes, and future-oriented initiatives focused on children and youth. Across these chapters, the volume offers critical insight, new methods, conceptual models, and valuable cross-cultural research. The chapters in this volume balance locally-situated realties of peace, as well as cross-cutting similarities across contexts. This book will be of particular interest to those working for peace on the frontlines, as well as global policymakers aiming to learn from other cases. Academics in the fields of psychology, sociology, education, peace studies, communication, community development, youth studies, and behavioral economics may be particularly interested in this volume.
Psychology of Liberation
Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond; and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than ever before. Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications updates the activist frameworks developed by Ignacio Martin-Baro and Paulo Freire with compelling stories from the frontlines of conflict in the developing and developed worlds, as social science and psychological practice are allied with struggles for peace, justice, and equality. In these chapters, liberation is presented as both an ongoing process and a core dimen...
The Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments on Diverse Childhoods
Children and young people are often discussed as if they are homogenous groups. The reality is, of course, very different, with an enormous variation within each of these groups and in any domain of experience pertaining to childhood or adolescence. Driven by personal, sociocultural, geographic, or economic circumstances, many children and young people worldwide are experiencing a totally different reality to those who fit with more mainstream patterns of childhood. This has substantial implications for their sociophysical environmental experience and our understanding of their physical environmental needs. The aim of this book is to draw attention to these alternate realities for a number o...
The Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology
The Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology, available online through Wiley Online Library or as a three-volume print set, is a state-of-the-art resource featuring almost 300 entries contributed by leading international scholars that examine the psychological dimensions of peace and conflict studies. First reference work to focus exclusively on psychological analyses and perspectives on peace and conflict Cross-disciplinary, linking psychology to other social science disciplines Includes nearly 300 entries written and edited by leading scholars in the field from around the world Examines key concepts, theories, methods, issues, and practices that are defining this growing field in the 21st century Includes timely topics such as genocide, hate crimes, torture, terrorism, racism, child abuse, and more A valuable reference for psychologists, and scholars, students, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies An ALA 2013 Outstanding Reference Source
The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology
This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world. Addressing some of the most pressing issues of our times, the text shows how Community Psychology can contribute to principled social change, giving voice, enabling civic participation and supporting the realignment of social and economic power within planetary boundaries. Featuring a collaboration of contributions from world-leading academics, early career researchers and community leaders, each chapter gives theory and context with practical examples of working with those ...
Psicología política y procesos para la paz en Colombia
Los diferentes capítulos del presente libro, resaltan la necesidad de historizar, politizar y contextualizar los conceptos usados desde la psicología en sus diferentes ramas. En el marco de lo anterior, considero que, uno de los aportes más relevantes de este texto tiene que ver con la posibilidad de seguir ampliando las márgenes epistémico-teóricas desde donde se ha comprendido la psicología política en el país. Invita, además, a diversificar las formas de llevar a cabo la construcción de conocimiento, acudiendo a métodos de vocación crítica y con énfasis en la transformación. Métodos que, como la IAP, la microetnografía o la hermenéutica ontológica política, reconozcan la importancia del diálogo de saberes y de la colectivización de las comprensiones, a través de análisis colaborativos en los que los participantes no sean vistos como informantes, objetos pasivos a observar, o curar, ni como sujetos epistémicamente inferiores, sino como sujetos políticos, con capacidad de agencia, sujetos históricos, sujetos con cuerpo y emoción, sujetos en creación permanente. Sara Victoria Alvarado Salgado.
Public Space in Informal Settlements
Public Space in Informal Settlements: The Barrios of Bogotá contributes to the debate on informal settlements by viewing them as an opportunity to understand different ways of seeing and thinking about the city. Public spaces in informal settlements, like the housing stock, are to a large extent the product of local self-help and self-managed processes; however, the equivalent level of understanding has not been achieved, partly because such settlements are often seen as spare spaces with little value. Public spaces in informal settlements are public in terms of ownership and accessibility, but are communal in terms of use and attachment. They play an important role in the physical and soci...
Poética de lo otro
Originalmente publicado en el año 2000, Poética de lo otro es el primer libro de corte etnográfico que se encarga de estudiar a fondo la condición del desplazado y sus formas de administración y subjetivación en el contexto de la oleada paramilitar a finales de los noventa en la costa Caribe colombiana. Con un largo e innovador trabajo de investigación de campo intensivo con organizaciones de desplazados, el texto explora –a través de una serie de epistemologías colaborativas- la naturaleza social de la fractura y la supervivencia. Es el primer volumen de una trilogía, en la que el segundo (que gira alrededor del tema del silencio) se titula Archivos del dolor: ensayos sobre la v...
Restitución de tierras y enfoque de género
En este documento los autores exploran por qué el enfoque de género es fundamental para que la restitución sea integral y, en esa medida, se proponen mostrar que la incorporación de dicho enfoque resulta útil y necesaria a fin de lograr una restitución plena, efectiva y respetuosa de los derechos humanos de las víctimas.
