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Chair: Beth Heron, Research Manager, King's College London
Speaker: Friederike Bubenzer, Senior Project Leader, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
The Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR); has been one of the organisations at the forefront of linking the fields of mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS) and peacebuilding. Without addressing both the MHPSS and peacebuilding needs of conflict-affected individuals and communities in an integrated way from the outset of programme conceptualisation; neither field is likely to prevent the continued scourge of direct and indirect violence which continues to ravage the world.
Using an innovative and highly participatory methodology, ‘co-creation’ workshops in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa brought together practitioners from both fields to jointly imagine and articulate what such an approach might look like and what individuals regard as the opportunities and challenges of using and operationalising such an approach in their specific contexts. Data collected from these workshops has provided rich insight into the concrete needs of practitioners to implement an integrated approach.
In this webinar, Frederike will be sharing insights into the methodology, outcomes to date and intended future steps of this project.
Bio:
Speaker: Friederike Bubenzer is Senior Project Leader in the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR).
Friederike leads IJRs work on the interconnectedness between mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS) and peace building. Friederike is also a facilitator who has led inclusion, diversity and peacebuilding dialogue processes in a wide variety of contexts.
Ms. Bubenzer holds an MPhil in Development Studies and Social Transformation from the University of Cape Town and undergraduate degrees in International Relations from the University of Stellenbosch. She is a fellow of Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights’ Association for Historical Dialogue and Accountability and the Truth, Justice and Memory Programme of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. She is currently completing a Rotary Peace Fellowship through Chulalongkorn Peace Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
