Welcome to Development in Practice

Volume 7, Number 4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 7(4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and solidarity
    Slim, Hugo
  • The humanitarian responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: ensuring the security of the people
    Somavía, Juan
  • For better? For worse? Humanitarian aid in conflict
    Bryer, David; Cairns, Edmund
  • Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonising Bosnia
    Chossudovsky, Michel
  • Non-neutral humanitarianism: NGOs and the Rwanda crisis
    Storey, Andy
• Viewpoint
  • Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future
    Lira, Elizabeth
• Practical Notes
  • The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation
    Maxwell, Simon
  • Feminise our forests: consultation on the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
    Nanavaty, Reema
  • Land-use options for rural development
    Ghimire, Krishna B.
  • Commercial sex and the single girl: women's empowerment through economic development in Thailand
    Sacks, Rachel G.
• Symposium Papers
  • Papers from a Symposium: Building Bridges in Southern Africa: Conflict, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Times of Change Preface
    Eade, Deborah; Williams, Suzanne
  • Sustainable peace-building in the South: experiences from Latin America (Paper from Symposium)
    Pearce, Jenny
  • Transition in El Salvador: a multi-layered process (Paper from Symposium)
    Thompson, Martha
  • Rwanda: beyond `ethnic conflict' (Paper from Symposium)
    Macintosh, Anne
  • Reconstruction and reconciliation: emerging from transition (Paper from Symposium)
    Simpson, Graeme
  • Collective memory and the process of reconciliation and reconstruction (Paper from Symposium)
    Chirwa, Wiseman
  • Reconciliation: the role of truth commissions and alternative ways of healing (Paper from Symposium)
    Muchenga Chicuecue, Noel
  • Reconciliation in Zimbabwe: reality or illusion? (Paper from Symposium)
    Ingham-Thorpe, Val
  • Physical, psychological, and political displacement in Angola and Mozambique (Paper from Symposium)
    Tinga Alberto, Francisco
  • Child soldiers: the experience of the Mozambican Association for Public Health (AMOSAPU) (Paper from Symposium)
    Castelo-Branco, Viriato
  • Training for peace (Paper from Symposium)
    Caine, Glenda
  • Change and continuity: the challenge of transition (Paper from Symposium)
    Eade, Deborah
  • Conflict, reconstruction, and reconciliation: reciprocal lessons for NGOs in Southern Africa and Central America (Paper from Symposium)
    Thompson, Martha
• Conference Report
  • Macro debates at the Micro-Credit Summit
    Kidder, Thalia
• Feedback
  • Tensions in the psychosocial discourse: implications for the planning of interventions with war-affected populations
    Ager, Alastair
• Research Roundup
  • Understanding the informal sector using sub-sector analysis
    Buckley, Graeme
• Book Reviews

Tensions in the psychosocial discourse: implications for the planning of interventions with war-affected populations

Ager, Alastair

Fundamental conceptual tensions underlie current debates regarding the implementation of psychosocial interventions with war-affected populations. Three particular tensions structuring current discourse concern the generalisability versus uniqueness of relevant knowledge, the valuing of technical versus indigenous understandings, and the planning of targeted versus community-based intervention. The implications of working out these tensions in the implementation of programmes are explored, leading to the proposal of a model of phased response to psychosocial needs.

Keywords: Conflict and reconstruction; Aid; Social sector; Rights

   

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