By Craig Higson-Smith
Greater than 15,000 humans were killed, and 500,000 displaced, in the course of years of low-intensity civil battle within the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. This ebook describes the paintings of the KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence (KZN-PSV), which (with the help of Oxfam) is helping groups to grapple with the advanced social, fiscal, political, and mental difficulties posed through the clash. A framework to lead interventions in such situations is printed, and the appliance of this framework in paintings with childrens, adolescence, ladies, and native management is defined intimately. the ultimate bankruptcy summarizes the rules of intervention which tell the paintings of KZN-PSV, and identifies the basic components that experience contributed to its sustained success.The e-book is written for neighborhood leaders in any society broken via civil clash; for improvement firms which aid such groups; and for college students and academics of community-development thought and perform. Its theoretical framework is satisfactorily non-specific to be utilized usefully in a huge variety of occasions.
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Furthermore, 1999 saw the first-ever congress of the African Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, which it is hoped will provide added impetus to the work of understanding traumatic stress in Africa. The recent launch of the South African Institute for Traumatic Stress in 2001 is another important step down this road. A second pervasive assumption in the traumatic-stress literature of 1990 was that traumatic experiences were typically conceptualised as single events occurring within a relatively safe society.
Descriptive studies of communities in civil conflict: Richmond and Imbali 'Violence' was too broad a category to help us to understand exactly what problems were of concern to people, and how common these problems were. To learn more about this, the KZN-PSV conducted a needs-assessment exercise, focused particularly on problems relating to violence in the Richmond area. While it is true that Richmond is one of the communities that has suffered most in the civil conflict, there are at least ten other large communities whose violent history is comparable, if less sensational.
How do those responsible for the organisation know when they are doing enough to protect their staff and volunteers? What limits should be set on Involvement with a particular community? Once work has started in a particular community, more and more opportunities for intervention open up. The temptation is to keep on allocating ever more resources to that community, because the work is progressing well, trust has been established, and ready-made opportunities for change can be maximised. However, the danger lies in neglecting other potentially more needy communities because it is easier and more rewarding to work in contexts where the organisation already has an established presence.