Armed conflict, education access, and community resilience: Evidence from the Afghanistan NRVA Survey 2005 and 2007

Embroidery, Resilience, and Discovery

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners - Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5981-8.ch007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 86-107

Author(s):

Sarah Joy Baker

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Historical Trauma ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Indigenous Women ◽

Grassroots Organizing ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Visual Mapping ◽

Mapping Tool

This chapter explores how embroidery as a visual mapping tool can address situations of historical trauma and increase community resilience through a process of conscientisation and grassroots organizing. The author will draw from her fieldwork with a group of indigenous Wayuu women in the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia, a region that has been significantly affected by climate change and decades of armed conflict. The women created embroidered maps of their daily lives, analyzed these maps for common themes and challenges, identified the root causes of the oppression they experience daily, and discussed action steps to address these power disparities. The author suggests that embroidery is a powerful healing tool for engaging indigenous women in a dignified manner by illuminating their narratives of resilience in order to address historical trauma.

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‘The Intolerable Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’: The United Nations Security Council and the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict

Global Responsibility to Protect ◽

10.1163/1875984x-01001004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1-2) ◽

pp. 57-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Katrina Lee-Koo

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Security Council ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Children's Rights ◽

United Nations Security Council ◽

Children’S Rights ◽

The United Nations ◽

Nuanced Understanding

The United Nations Security Council’s Children and Armed Conflict agenda is animated by a protection ethic. While the protection of children from violence in armed conflict is entirely appropriate, this article demonstrates that the Council’s singular focus upon protection goes beyond merely appropriate, and borders upon overbearing. The article traces the ways that dominant conceptualisations of children as ‘innocent victims’ has animated an agenda that focuses primarily upon their victimisation that, in turn, reinforces the legitimacy of the protection ethic. It argues that this excludes a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of children in conflict. In this sense, the agenda is closed to exploring the ways in which children resist, adapt, shape, and survive conflict in ways that position them as agents of their own protection and – in some circumstances – agents of community resilience amidst conflict. Ultimately, this article argues that re-visioning children’s relationship to armed conflict provides a strategy to better ensure children’s rights and reflects their relationship to peace.

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