Healing is What Makes Peace Work by Angi Yoder-Maina

Author:Angi Yoder-Maina
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031052514
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

This is because the culture of violence is often the predominant culture. One of the interviewees explained how cultural violence was used to racially discriminate children. He explained,Tests by South Africa’ State Psychological Bureau [in the 1970s and 1980s] created intelligence tests which [were] standardized on white western [educated] kids [in order to show] black kids [were] less intelligent (GPB26).

The above is an example of cultural violence and cultural replication which served to discriminate and treat some as less human than others. As one interviewee described, “[i]t becomes much more about meaning and how people construct their meaning of it and how the context influences the meaning” (GPB24).

Concepts and frameworks developed in other contexts and with different populations must be critically examined for their applicability, adaptability, and utility for the local context. One interviewee who works/interacts with global peacebuilders noted, “[t]he work is adaptive to many different environments but needs contextualization” (GPB22). An interviewee noted the program she worked on developing eventually developed “a deep process which reached different people differently. [As] we are not all impacted by violence in the same way, thus not all interventions are for everyone” (AP4). For example, one interviewee who had worked in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994 noted, “[t]he Gacaca process was a culturally appropriate way to deal with justice while also dealing with the magnitude” (AP7).

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