Recovery from conflict can take many different forms. It might involve physical rebuilding or the restoration of civic infrastructures. It might involve inner healing, a coming to terms with trauma, or a search for forgiveness. It might focus simply on ‘putting things right’ – or it might lead to ‘post-conflict growth’. In this part of our museum we look at different ways in which individuals and communities have tried to recover after conflict. The stories below raise important questions, such as: how do inner healing and wider reconciliation or restoration processes relate to each other, and how does post-conflict recovery relate to peace itself?
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On 27th …
Inspired by our discussions of different methods of visualising peace – and in particular, …
Fig. 1 – The Traveller in front of a statue of the past
Designed by …
‘I’ve come to realise that a peace treaty is only the beginning of a …
Trigger warning – cannibalism, suicide, gore
‘As I walked alongside them, I knew that each …
‘Educating a girl will create equal and stable societies, and educated refugees will be …
‘Oh Syria, my loveI hear your moaning in the cries of the doves’You can …
Trigger warning – discussion of the Holocaust
“We are what we pretend to be, so …
Du musst Caligari werden. (‘You must become Caligari.’)
Fittingly, perhaps, accounts of the production and …
‘The city that was burntWas reborn on another coast’
Despite popular belief that the First …
“… But the garden was not hers, she was told. Nor was the aroma,which …
Make me a channel of your peaceWhere there is hatred let me bring your …
These children will need to learn something as basic as how to play normally, …
“I felt personally responsible for creating those target packages which led to the deaths …
“In each of those encounters with those suffering there was a glimmer of hope …
Trigger warning: descriptions of graphic violence
In the early 1990s, Dr. Jonathan Shay was working …
“Moral Injury: Healing” is the final part of a three-part series by the Huffington …
Trigger warning: injury, death, trauma
“Something very bad happened to your father, and it was …
‘Life wins’ – Dr Omar Mohammed / Mosul Eye
When ISIS captured Mosul in 2014, …
Visualising Peace with Honey
In 2014, ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul.[i] Terrible acts of …