LEADER 04577nam 2200841 450 001 9910825861303321 005 20210427014547.0 010 $a0-8122-0993-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209938 035 $a(CKB)2670000000566451 035 $a(EBL)3442525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266336 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11849554 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266336 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11250277 035 $a(PQKB)11252451 035 $a(OCoLC)884035451 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32959 035 $a(DE-B1597)449860 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209938 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11045935 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682577 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000566451 100 $a20150430h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSearching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war /$fSharon Alane Abramowitz 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-51295-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4626-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War --$t2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions --$t3. Trauma and the New Normal --$t4. Individual Interventions --$t5. The GBV Proxy --$t6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation --$t7. Redemption Time --$t8. The Healers --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAt the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into post-conflict humanitarian health care delivery. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aSocial psychology$zLiberia 606 $aPostwar reconstruction$zLiberia 606 $aMental health$zLiberia$xInternational relations 606 $aPsychic trauma$zLiberia 606 $aWomen$xViolence against$zLiberia 607 $aLiberia$xSocial conditions$y1980- 607 $aLiberia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1989-1996$xPsychological aspects 607 $aLiberia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1999-2003$xPsychological aspects 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aSocial psychology 615 0$aPostwar reconstruction 615 0$aMental health$xInternational relations. 615 0$aPsychic trauma 615 0$aWomen$xViolence against 676 $a306.09666209/04 700 $aAbramowitz$b Sharon Alane$01598358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825861303321 996 $aSearching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war$93920555 997 $aUNINA