04577nam 2200841 450 991078797830332120210427014547.00-8122-0993-110.9783/9780812209938(CKB)2670000000566451(EBL)3442525(SSID)ssj0001266336(PQKBManifestationID)11849554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266336(PQKBWorkID)11250277(PQKB)11252451(OCoLC)884035451(MdBmJHUP)muse32959(DE-B1597)449860(DE-B1597)9780812209938(Au-PeEL)EBL3442525(CaPaEBR)ebr11045935(CaONFJC)MIL682577(MiAaPQ)EBC3442525(EXLCZ)99267000000056645120150430h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrSearching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war /Sharon Alane Abramowitz1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (280 p.)Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-51295-7 0-8122-4626-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Abbreviations --1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War --2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions --3. Trauma and the New Normal --4. Individual Interventions --5. The GBV Proxy --6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation --7. Redemption Time --8. The Healers --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsAt the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into post-conflict humanitarian health care delivery. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia.Pennsylvania studies in human rights.Social psychologyLiberiaPostwar reconstructionLiberiaMental healthLiberiaInternational relationsPsychic traumaLiberiaWomenViolence againstLiberiaLiberiaSocial conditions1980-LiberiaHistoryCivil War, 1989-1996Psychological aspectsLiberiaHistoryCivil War, 1999-2003Psychological aspectsAfrican Studies.African-American Studies.Anthropology.Folklore.Human Rights.Law.Linguistics.Social psychologyPostwar reconstructionMental healthInternational relations.Psychic traumaWomenViolence against306.09666209/04Abramowitz Sharon Alane1553105MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787978303321Searching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war3813391UNINA