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Selected Papers from the 11th ISHHR Conference for Health and Human Rights—Collective Healing: Restoring the Relationship of Humanity and Nature

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2022) | Viewed by 10420

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gwynyth Overland

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International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR), Kristiansand Sør, Vest-Agder, Norway
Interests: clinical sociology; sociology of religion; collective healing
Prof. Dr. Özgür Erdur-Baker

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Department of Educational Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
Interests: outcome and process research in counseling; gender and culture sensitive counseling; peer bullying (traditional and cyber bullying), trauma, grief and disaster psychology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to open a call for abstract submissions for our international conference Collective Healing: Restoring the Relationship of Humanity and Nature.

The aspiration to heal our relationship with nature was born during a brainstorming session after a webinar on SDG4, Health and Well-Being, held by ISHHR in March 2021, where all simultaneously arrived at the realisation that this is the only solution and a most viable path for humanity and nature (see the video on https://ishhr.com).

Some may hear echoes of New Age. The difference is a more scientific approach to the how to of doing things: papers and discussions should provide both analyses and actions, ways forward. 

We have solicited contributions for the conference—keynotes, workshops, symposia, and parallel sessions in four different streams, or themes, briefly presented below. The full description is available in the Call for Papers:

  • Post-conflict reconciliation, reconstruction and re-socialisation;
  • Implementing Women's and Girls´ Rights to Mental Health and Freedom from Violence;
  • Supporting Human Rights Defenders (HRDs);
  • Treatment Methods after Traumatic Human Rights Abuse.   

The conference will be held on 21–25 November 2022. In collaboration with Social Sciences, the authors of high-quality papers from the conference will be invited to submit follow-up articles extending the presented research in this dedicated Special Issue.

Dr. Gwynyth Overland
Prof. Dr. Özgür Erdur-Baker
Guest Editors

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Struggles of Refugee-Receiving Schools in Turkey
by Dilara Özel and Özgür Erdur-Baker
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(4), 231; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040231 - 13 Apr 2023
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A total of 82.4 million persons had emigrated from their countries by the end of 2020 because of global conflicts. A total of 3.6 million settled in Turkey, which became the most refugee-receiving country. Among those resettled in Turkey, the majority were school-aged [...] Read more.
A total of 82.4 million persons had emigrated from their countries by the end of 2020 because of global conflicts. A total of 3.6 million settled in Turkey, which became the most refugee-receiving country. Among those resettled in Turkey, the majority were school-aged children, and schools became an inseparable instrument in the adaptation process. Thus, schools play a vital role in creating a safe space for healing; through students, schools also contribute to building solidarity and collective responsibility for the social inclusion of refugees. Schools’ guidance services are key in working with the school’s stakeholders. This study aims to analyze the needs and issues of schools with high refugee density in different parts of Turkey from the school counselors’ perspectives. Using a semistructured interview protocol, we interviewed fifteen school counselors from seven different cities, and three main themes emerged: (a) student-related issues, (b) contextual issues, and (c) response strategies. Findings indicate that refugee-receiving schools need to attend to students and families, as well as deal with conflicts among Syrians and conflicts between Syrians and locals, with limited resources. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 11th ISHHR Conference for Health and Human Rights—Collective Healing: Restoring the Relationship of Humanity and Nature)
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Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL
by Salah Addin Lekkeh, Md. Omar Faruk, Sabiha Jahan, Ammar Beetar, Gülşah Kurt, Ruth Wells and Scarlett Wong
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(3), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030170 - 13 Mar 2023
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Background: Clinical supervision in providing mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSSs) is an ethical imperative and a key to ensuring quality of care in terms of service users’ skills enhancement, well-being, and satisfaction. However, humanitarian contexts in low-resource countries usually lack sufficient [...] Read more.
Background: Clinical supervision in providing mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSSs) is an ethical imperative and a key to ensuring quality of care in terms of service users’ skills enhancement, well-being, and satisfaction. However, humanitarian contexts in low-resource countries usually lack sufficient infrastructures to ensure staff have access to supervision. Against this backdrop, a pilot supervision program was introduced in Bangladesh and Syria to help MHPSS staff provide quality care. However, supervision provided by experts unfamiliar with these contexts decontextualizes the supervision process and hinders cultural relevance. The aim of this paper is to present a decolonial model of supervision called “WONDERFUL Supervision”. Methods: We provided fortnightly online supervision to a total of 32 MHPSS practitioners (seven in Bangladesh and twenty-five in Syria) working in humanitarian contexts in Bangladesh and Syria as well as their surrounding countries (such as Türkiye) between 2019 and 2021.The issues talked about were the skills needed for the practitioners to provide optimal levels of service, manage staff burnout, and present cases. Focus group discussions and reflective discussions included 19 participants, involving both practitioners and supervisors across sites. Results: Despite some notable effects, the supervision was obstructed due to being decontextualized, such as the supervisors not having adequate knowledge about the contexts and culture of beneficiaries, a perceived feeling of power imbalance, practitioners having limited access to resources (e.g., internet connection and technical support), and different time zones. This defect paves the way for a new mode of supervision, WONDERFUL, which takes into account contextual factors and other sociocultural aspects. Conclusions: WONDERFUL supervision has the potential to indigenize the concept of clinical supervision and thereby more sustainably and effectively ensure quality mental health care in resource-limited countries, especially in humanitarian contexts. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 11th ISHHR Conference for Health and Human Rights—Collective Healing: Restoring the Relationship of Humanity and Nature)
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Vio-lense: A Model for Understanding How Violence and Senses Relate during Refugee Journeys in Europe, and How This in Turn Can Foster Collective Healing
by Georgina Lewis
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(3), 131; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030131 - 27 Feb 2023
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Introduction: The ‘senses’—our sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch—are intrinsic components of our human experience. Trauma recovery practitioners afford the senses to foster healing and draw into awareness the sensations of the traumatised body. Therefore, if the senses are valuable in trauma recovery, [...] Read more.
Introduction: The ‘senses’—our sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch—are intrinsic components of our human experience. Trauma recovery practitioners afford the senses to foster healing and draw into awareness the sensations of the traumatised body. Therefore, if the senses are valuable in trauma recovery, then they must also be important in the initial traumatic acts—such as violence. Aim: This ongoing PhD project explores the role of senses in violence committed towards refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Method: A sensorial model is developed through semi-structured interviews and key engagement with literature and research. Results: An excess and absence of senses are critical in understanding violence endured by refugees and asylum seekers, but also in how violence is witnessed and perceived by others. It is clear people on the move experience violence sensorially throughout their journey. Conclusions: The senses are evidently part of the violence. At times, violence is in sensorial excess: the sounds of camps; the smell of tear gas. Alternatively, a concealment or deprivation of senses can also be violent: camps on the periphery; violence out of sight. Notably, senses (in excess or through concealment) can also be vital components in the survival of violence. “Vio-lense” is a suggested model for considering ‘violence’ and ‘senses’ as being essentially interwoven rather than separate. This, in turn, is important for development of collective healing mechanisms and, more widely, defining and understanding violence. Full article
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Reflections on Collective Healing at the Community of El Juego
by Gioel Gioacchino
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(7), 399; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070399 - 7 Jul 2023
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El Juego is a multicultural community of 30 people that exists as a permanent laboratory of conflict resolution and healing. Two and a half years ago, during the pandemic and after four years of living as nomads, we bought together one hundred and [...] Read more.
El Juego is a multicultural community of 30 people that exists as a permanent laboratory of conflict resolution and healing. Two and a half years ago, during the pandemic and after four years of living as nomads, we bought together one hundred and forty hectares in San Rafael, Antioquia, to live in close connection with nature and promote reforestation by creating a natural reserve. In this article, we share some of our reflections and experiences of collective healing. We do so through an exercise in autoethnography carried out by two members of our community following the death of Camelia, one of our horses. We then pull out themes that appeared in the autoethnographic pieces, sharing our reflections on developing a more intimate relationship with nature. In the discussion, we draw on the literature on anarchism and Indigenous ways of knowing and enrich it with the lived experience of the community. Full article
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Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Set of Systematic Reviews of Literature
by Carolina Botero-García, Daniela Rocha, María Alejandra Rodríguez and Ana María Rozo
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(5), 291; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050291 - 8 May 2023
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Sexual violence is highly prevalent in sociopolitical conflict contexts. Even though its negative effects are well documented, further research is needed on how community experiences of social growth and rebuilding could positively impact victims of sexual violence in these contexts. As a starting [...] Read more.
Sexual violence is highly prevalent in sociopolitical conflict contexts. Even though its negative effects are well documented, further research is needed on how community experiences of social growth and rebuilding could positively impact victims of sexual violence in these contexts. As a starting point, we conducted a two-phase systematic review. The first phase focused on the relationships between sociopolitical conflict, sexual violence, and psychological effects or trauma (2010–2017), and, in addition to the deep negative psychological effects, it also found reports of posttraumatic growth in victims. This led to a second phase that related sexual violence in sociopolitical conflict contexts to posttraumatic growth and resilience (2017–2022). We found nine publications documenting experiences of resilience and posttraumatic growth in victims of sexual violence in sociopolitical conflicts. Interestingly, resilience and posttraumatic growth were shown not only in victims but also in communities and new generations, which is relevant to understanding the long-lasting effects of violence in contexts of sociopolitical conflict. Full article
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