In this notebook we learn about the the process of creating 'briefers' to accompany victims during the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). These 'briefers' aided victims before, during, and after they testified by providing psychosocial support and legal support.
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healing
Involving the community in deciding offenders’ sentences and helping rehabilitate them
Peacemaking circles use traditional circle ritual and structure to create a respectful space in which all interested community members, victim, victim supporters, offender, offender supporters, judge, prosecutor, defense counsel, police and court workers can speak openly in a shared search for understanding of a crime and to identify the steps necessary to assist in healing all affected parties
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Training Paraprofessionals to work with torture survivors
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) trains peer counselors to provide mental health services to refugees in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Recent conflicts in those countries produced massive displacement of people in the region.
Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing
Rebuilding Hope in Mozambique combined traditional healing and western psychology to reintegrate former child soldiers. The organization saw the need for an integrated healing process that would allow families and communities to accept child soldiers back into their lives — these children who may have perpetrated atrocities suffered by their own communities.

