Ahmad, A; Ahmad, L; Mannell, JC; (2018) Responding to trauma during conflict: a case study of gender-based violence and traditional story-telling in Afghanistan, in: Humanitarian Exchange, 72, p. 34-37. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://odihpn.org/magazine/responding-to-trauma-d...

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Abstract

This article explores the challenges of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in Afghanistan, with a particular focus on sexual and gender-based violence. We discuss the development of a therapeutic intervention using traditional story-telling for gender-based violence in conflict, drawing out lessons for the role of humanitarian actors in facilitating MHPSS in contexts with very little or virtually non-existent mental health infrastructure. Although the intervention focuses on GBV-related psychological trauma, stories of war and conflict are inescapable, and war narratives and GBV narratives are intertwined. At the same time, war and conflict can produce societal disruption, opening up spaces for social transformation and providing an alternative discourse to channel and transfer stories it might otherwise have been impossible to tell.

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