Resumen de Peacebuilding and Trauma Trasformation. Is sustainable peacebuilding possible without addressing and transforming trauma?
The role of past in lives of people is significant: according to an ancient philosophy, people walk in front of the past, while the unknown future stays behind of them. Hard experiences of conflict, war and trauma have inevitable and negative impact on social, economic and political life of individuals and communities, with long term effects on their function and development, creating number of dysfunctional individuals and traumatized societies, and trauma transfer on generations. Trauma is in newer researches seen not only as the legacy but also as the cause of conflict, building a raising spiral. This points on the need for trauma healing, and a question “Is sustainable peacebuilding possible without addressing and transforming trauma?” Experiences form communities which survived horrible of war and genocide show difficulties in their reconciliation, recovery and progress, and their interrelation with the high level of trauma. The link between conflict and trauma points directly on need for trauma transformation in order to broke the conflict spiral. Trauma transformation is a necessary part of rebuilding relations on which is based the whole community. Relational issues create the environment for peacebuilding, political, economic and social development of the society, with impact on each aspect of the process. This confirms the role, and necessity of trauma transformation in peacebuilding. Dealing with trauma is actually dealing with the past – necessary to achieve reconciliation of society for the purpose of its progress towards just and long term peace. Sustainable peacebuilding is impossible without addressing and transforming trauma – and a choice to do that for the better future.
