This article describes the Butterfly peace garden initiative, an innovative after-school programme for 600 war-affected children in Sri Lanka. The programme offers creative play activities and ethnic reconciliation, integrated with opportunities for trauma healing through art-based processes. The article discusses the programme's similarities with and differences from community-based rehabilitation and deals with the controversial issues of the pathology of militarised violence at a societal level, mental illness paradigms such as post-traumatic stress disorder and the appropriateness of Western counselling approaches
This paper considers the specific challenges facing women with disabilities in South Asia and puts forwards some possible strategies to overcome these disadvantages in a community based rehabilitation setting
This paper reviews the main trends that have taken place in training persons for CBR work in the last twenty years. It stresses the relevance of the Canadian manpower model to CBR and the logical approach to training generated. New trends for the near future are outlined and a need for more research is seen as crucial to future developments
Western stereotypes of 'community' are used in the planning of many CBR programmes in developing countries. These programmes expose themselves to a higher risk of failure because they tend to conflict with the cultural factors of the host country. This editorial illustrates the significance of cultural influences on disability and rehabilitation in the context of CBR
This paper discusses three issues...[for] consideration as part of the evolving discussion of disability in a cross-cultural context. The first concerns seeing socially constructed concepts and beliefs about disability as ideas and attitudes that are often, and increasingly, in transition and not as static conceptual frameworks. The second issue deals with determining the best methodology to understand disability in the individual, family, community and societal setting out of the many methodologies that can be employed in these situations...The third issue is about ensuring that the information gathered is disseminated broadly, which means sharing the information generated not only with those interested in disability issues, but also with those working on issues such as development policy, social change and justice, who know little about disability
This paper deals with the concept of CBR as seen by a section of practitioners in the Asia Pacific region. In their view, CBR is a form of a community development programme onto which different components of rehabilitation are grafted, rather than a specialised programme meant exclusively for disabled people. In such a programme, the change in the community's behaviour towards disabled people is more vital to promote inclusion than changes in the disabled people themselves. The paper also deals with the major constraints to the wider application of CBR
This paper examines the principal tenets of the disability movement, analysing the contribution that it has made to the greater understanding of disability