Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # manas International organisation for Justice and Healing ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.manas.org.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Projects - [Supporting a Trauma-Informed Documentary on Women-Led Peacemaking](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-theartofpeacedocumentary/) - [Supporting Reparations with the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Nepal](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-nepaltransitionaljusticeandreparations/) - [Protecting frontline professionals exposed to mass and on-going suffering](https://www.manas.org.uk/protecting-frontline-professionals-exposed-to-mass-and-on-going-suffering/) - A model to support skills and wellbeing of practitioners in humanitarian contexts. - [Documenting Genocidal Violence and Intergenerational Trauma of Rohingya Children](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-copy-5/) - [Psychological-social analysis of the genocidal sexual violence against Rohingyas](https://www.manas.org.uk/law-report/) - Our experts, Émilie and Richard, collaborated with Legal Action Worldwide(LAW) and Justice Rapid Response (JRR) to support international justice mechanisms in relation to the genocidal violence perpetrated against the Rohingya population in Myanmar. A research report was produced on the long-term physical and psychosocial consequences of genocidal sexual violence perpetrated against the Rohingya population during the 2017 "Clearance operation" campaign by the Myanmar government. - [Memorialisation of the Grenfell tragedy through trauma-informed architecture](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-copy-4/) - [Examining Humanitarian International Protection in the Congo](https://www.manas.org.uk/examining-humanitarian-international-protection-in-the-congo/) - Peace of Mind. Exploring MHPSS in relation to Peacebuilding in Central African Republic. - [Exploring the reintegration of LRA abductees and LRA-affected communities](https://www.manas.org.uk/reintegration-lra/) - Through this collaboration with Conciliation Resources, Emilie examined the experiences of children and adults who have escaped from the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) as they try to reintegrate into civilian life in the DRC and South Sudan. "Back but not home: Supporting the reintegration of former LRA abductees into civilian life in South Sudan and the Congo" analyses the community dynamics that affect reintegration positively and negatively and assesses the effectiveness of past and current initiatives to ease this process. It forms part of a wider research project that also seeks to address shortfalls in the understanding of and responses to the protection of civilians. - [Enabling a voice for CRSV survivors during PSVI advocacy events](https://www.manas.org.uk/enabling-a-voice-for-crsv-survivors-during-psvi-advocacy-events/) - Enabling a voice for victims of CRSV during key Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) advocacy events. For survivors, with survivors. - [Understanding the administration of death and mass killings in genocides](https://www.manas.org.uk/livingindeath/) - When we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalised ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Living in Death offers new answers to a question that has haunted us at least since the Holocaust. For Richard, it is not ideologies that kill, but people. This book descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office, constituting an anthropology of mass killers. - [Supporting a Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centred Justice in Ukraine](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-copy-2/) - [Building A Child-Sensitive Justice in Ukraine](https://www.manas.org.uk/manasproject-copy/) - [Supporting reparative justice for CRSV victims from the Kosovo conflict](https://www.manas.org.uk/supporting-reparative-justice-for-crsv-victims-from-the-kosovo-conflict/) - Through Justice Rapid Response (JRR), one of our team members, Emilie, supported UN Women in its focus on enabling gender-sensitive reparative measures by strengthening the capacity of the Government Commission on Recognition and Verification of the Status of Sexual Violence Victims During the Kosovo Liberation War. - [Exploring Peacebuilding and MHPSS within a cultural framework in CAR](https://www.manas.org.uk/exploring-peacebuilding-and-mhpss-within-a-cultural-framework-in-car/) - The research project was a collaboration with Conciliation Resources entitled "Disarmament of the Heart", funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. On of our experts, Emilie, led a qualitative research that aimed to inform a culturally and gender-sensitive MHPSS and Peacebuilding intervention. - [Living with the Nepalese so-called child soldiers from the People's War](https://www.manas.org.uk/life-after-armed-groups-in-nepal/) - The research project focused on understanding the long-term effects of the experience of the so-called "child soldiers" or, rather, the active involvement in armed groups at an early age. We wanted to understand the role of young people’s armed group experience during the Nepal People’s War compared with post-conflict stressors, as they return to strongly affected, politicised communities. We explored the way this experiences of war shaped intra-psychic impact and distress, and which processes enable well-being and resilient functioning. - [Advocating for the recognition of sexual violence and torture during the Nepalese conflict](https://www.manas.org.uk/advocacy-for-the-justice-for-victims-of-conflicts/) - Our expert-by-experience, Gita, joins other conflict-affected families to advocate for the Nepal government to engage with justice. The Nepal conflict led to over 13,000 people killed, over 1,300 were subjected to enforced disappearance over 70,000 people were displaced, at least 20,000 were tortured, and thousands of women were raped during the 10-year-long armed conflict - [The empire of trauma: an inquiry into the condition of victimhood](https://www.manas.org.uk/the-empire-of-trauma-an-inquiry-into-the-condition-of-victimhood/) - The book co-authored by Richard remains to this day the most influential academic publication in the field of psychological trauma. - [Preventing and responding to the recruitment and use of child soldiers in contemporary conflicts](https://www.manas.org.uk/preventing-and-responding-to-child-recruitment-and-use-in-contemporary-conflicts/) - Cradled by Conflict is a technical note, researched and written by Claudia for the United Nations University’s (UNU) Children and Extreme Violence Project, was a collaboration of UNU, UNICEF, DPKO, and the Governments of Luxembourg and Switzerland. Based on the research findings, as well as on reflections from practitioners and children, this note documents how existing programming and practice might be strengthened to respond to the particular challenges facing child protection practitioners in contemporary conflicts. - [Training and reflective practice on secondary trauma for investigators of CRSV](https://www.manas.org.uk/training-and-reflective-practice-on-secondary-trauma-for-professionals-investigating-crsv/) - Webinar training and reflective conversations for OHCHR-UN Women-JRR. - [Facilitating trauma-informed participation to Wilton Park advocacy events](https://www.manas.org.uk/facilitating-trauma-informed-participation-to-wilton-park-advocacy-events/) - Wilton Park convenes international strategic dialogues as an executive agency for the FCDO [Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office] of the UK government. Government representatives and key stakeholders, CSOs, and Experts-by-Experience (sometimes including SGBV survivors) join a 3-day-long residential stay in secluded and confidential premises to address key challenges. An intimate collaboration with the Wilton Park team has enabled the development over the past 10 years of a very refined trauma-informed model to ensure the participants hosted are supported through possible moments of emotional fragility throughout these discussions. - [Providing a psychological and anthropological understanding of MHPSS for the Ebola response](https://www.manas.org.uk/mh-guinea-conakry/) - Responding to WHO’s request of a MHPSS literature review, Emilie, led the team of researcher who produced a strategic report for International Medical Corps (IMC) that sought to understand the cultural, social, and psychological underpinnings of the population in Guinee-Conakry, including in the context of the Ebola crisis. - [A cultural history of psychological trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/cultural-history-psychological-trauma/) - A cultural history of psychological trauma Keynote from our expert Professor Richard Rechtman ## Pages - [Who we are](https://www.manas.org.uk/whoweare/) - [Footer 1](https://www.manas.org.uk/footer/) - [Our work in action](https://www.manas.org.uk/whatwedo/workinaction/) - [Our services](https://www.manas.org.uk/whatwedo/servicesoffer/) - [Homepage](https://www.manas.org.uk/home/) - [Contact](https://www.manas.org.uk/contact/) - [What we do](https://www.manas.org.uk/whatwedo/) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.manas.org.uk/privacy-policy/) ## News - [Geneva, this is Goma. Do you read me? Over.](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-4/) - Claudia writes about transforming violence in Eastern DRC - [Where difficult truths can be spoken safely](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-7/) - Émilie looks back at trauma-informed dialogues for the 80 years of Wilton Park - [Reparations: what role for cultural psychological insights?](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-5/) - Emilie Medeiros Émilie joins the 5th African Union-European Union expert seminar to discuss reparations within Transitional Justice in Nigeria - [A new chapter for Rohingya women?](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-2/) - Ambia argues for women's essential role in the Rohingya struggle (Rohingya Refugee News) - ["The Khmers rouges did not simply wish to kill, but to destroy beyond the individuals"](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-6/) - #Richard is interviewed by Libération for the 50th anniversary of the genocide in Cambodia - [Eliminating coercive practices in mental health globally](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy/) - Greg facilitates a global training webinar for WHO qualityrights - [The path to Victims-Centric Transitional Justice in Nepal](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/newstemplate-copy-3/) - Gita shares her reflections in Doughty Street Chambers, London - [Insight into the concept of resilience](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/richard-gives-his-insight-into-the-concept-of-resilience/) - Richard is interviewed for the International Panel on Exiting Violence - [No Law, No Justice, No State for Victims](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/no-law-no-justice-no-state-for-victims/) - Gita speaks to Human Rights Watch about the Culture of Impunity in Post-Conflict Nepal - ["We really respect that courage and remind them of that."](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/interview-for-world-mental-health-day/) - Greg is interviewed about supporting the mental health of refugees - [Rohingya refugees: what can Médecins Sans Frontières do?](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/rohingya-refugees-what-can-msf-do/) - Émilie speaks at MSF CRASH conference in Paris - [“My past, which I share with so many others, never passes. The only way to the future is through the past.”](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/my-past-which-i-share-with-so-many-others-never-passes-the-only-way-to-the-future-is-through-the-past/) - Gita shares her thoughts in 'She Is The Story' (VOW Media) - [Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions](https://www.manas.org.uk/news/peace-justice-and-strong-institutions/) - Claudia reflects with Women 17, "Conversations with global women changing the world" ## Categories - [All](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/services/) - [Research](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/services/research/) - [Strategic Guidance](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/services/guidance/) - [Strengthening Practices](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/services/training/) - [Enabling Advocacy](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/services/advocacy/) - [All](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/themes/) - [Victims of violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/themes/experienceviolence/) - [Actors of violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/themes/actingviolence/) - [Justice & Peacebuilding](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/themes/justice/) - [Intervention](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/themes/healing/) - [All projects](https://www.manas.org.uk/category/all/) ## Tags - [mass violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mass-violence/) - [MHPSS](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mhpss/) - [intervention](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/intervention/) - [frontline](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/frontline/) - [activists](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/activists/) - [supervision](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/supervision/) - [humanitarian](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/humanitarian/) - [well being](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/well-being/) - [secondary trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/secondary-trauma/) - [reflective practice](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/reflective-practice/) - [resilience](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/resilience/) - [trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/trauma/) - [PTSD](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ptsd/) - [vicarious trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/vicarious-trauma/) - [protection](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/protection/) - [CRSV](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/crsv/) - [SGBV](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/sgbv/) - [sexual violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/sexual-violence/) - [investigation](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/investigation/) - [documentation](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/documentation/) - [training](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/training/) - [webinar](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/webinar/) - [OHCHR](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ohchr/) - [human rights](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/human-rights/) - [justice rapid response](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/justice-rapid-response/) - [UN Women](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/un-women/) - [survivors](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/survivors/) - [victims](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/victims/) - [PSVI](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/psvi/) - [FCDO](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/fcdo/) - [conference](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/conference/) - [advocacy](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/advocacy/) - [atrocities](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/atrocities/) - [criminal justice](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/criminal-justice/) - [crime](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/crime/) - [practice](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/practice/) - [CAR](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/car/) - [Central African Republic](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/central-african-republic/) - [Peacebuilding](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/peacebuilding/) - [Conciliation Resources](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/conciliation-resources/) - [culture](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/culture/) - [anthropology](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/anthropology/) - [ex combatants](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ex-combatants/) - [DDR](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ddr/) - [reintegration](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/reintegration/) - [rehabilitation](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/rehabilitation/) - [youths](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/youths/) - [healing](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/healing/) - [traditional healing](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/traditional-healing/) - [mental health](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mental-health/) - [mental illness](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mental-illness/) - [rituals](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/rituals/) - [collective violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/collective-violence/) - [mass suffering](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mass-suffering/) - [community](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/community/) - [child soldiers](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/child-soldiers/) - [perpetrators](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/perpetrators/) - [policy](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/policy/) - [research](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/research/) - [programme](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/programme/) - [guidelines](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/guidelines/) - [armed groups](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/armed-groups/) - [CAAC](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/caac/) - [guidance](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/guidance/) - [crime against humanity](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/crime-against-humanity/) - [UNICEF](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/unicef/) - [DPKO](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/dpko/) - [claudia Seymour](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/claudia-seymour/) - [child protection](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/child-protection/) - [extreme violence](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/extreme-violence/) - [international criminal justice](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/international-criminal-justice/) - [Rohingyas](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/rohingyas/) - [genocide](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/genocide/) - [psychological evidence](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/psychological-evidence/) - [torture](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/torture/) - [Legal Action Worldwide](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/legal-action-worldwide/) - [Intersectional](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/intersectional/) - [Law](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/law/) - [Psychology](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/psychology/) - [Medicine](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/medicine/) - [Physical injury](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/physical-injury/) - [ethnography](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ethnography/) - [armed conflict](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/armed-conflict/) - [war](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/war/) - [CAAFAG](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/caafag/) - [stressors](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/stressors/) - [The empire of trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/the-empire-of-trauma/) - [Richard Rechtman](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/richard-rechtman/) - [L'Empire du traumatisme](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/lempire-du-traumatisme/) - [DSM](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/dsm/) - [Republique centrafricaine](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/republique-centrafricaine/) - [RCA](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/rca/) - [Lord Resistance Army](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/lord-resistance-army/) - [LRA](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/lra/) - [abduction](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/abduction/) - [kidnapping](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/kidnapping/) - [South Sudan](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/south-sudan/) - [DRC](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/drc/) - [RDC](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/rdc/) - [Congo](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/congo/) - [transgenerational trauma](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/transgenerational-trauma/) - [accountability](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/accountability/) - [recovery](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/recovery/) - [Nepal](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/nepal/) - [Inequality](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/inequality/) - [activism](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/activism/) - [mass killing](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/mass-killing/) - [death](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/death/) - [holocaust](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/holocaust/) - [child-friendly](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/child-friendly/) - [partnership](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/partnership/) - [ukraine](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/ukraine/) - [insurgency](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/insurgency/) - [Transitional Justice](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/transitional-justice/) - [Reparations](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/reparations/) - [Truth Commission](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/truth-commission/) - [TRC](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/trc/) - [Peacemaking](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/peacemaking/) - [Documentary](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/documentary/) - [Political leadership](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/political-leadership/) - [Women](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/women/) - [Inclusion](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/inclusion/) - [WPS](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/wps/) - [Peace](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/peace/) - [Diplomacy](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/diplomacy/) - [Syria](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/syria/) - [Northern Ireland](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/northern-ireland/) - [Peace agreement](https://www.manas.org.uk/tag/peace-agreement/) ## News Category - [News](https://www.manas.org.uk/lay_news_category/news/)