Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neoliberalism as a violence system / Michael Minch -- Toward best practices in trauma-informed peacebuilding : systematizing interventions in protracted social conflicts / Jeremy Rinker and Jerry Lawler -- "It is like we have died, but weare still breathing" : the tauma of housing resettled refugees within a neoliberal model / Holly Sienkiewicz, Maura Nsonwu, Elizabeth Biddle, Natacha Nikokeza, Paige Moore, and Mary Anne Busch -- Trauma, yoga, and trauma recovery : from the clinical to the sociological / Cindy Brooks Dollar -- The arts are not for sale : addressing cultural trauma and prioritizing people over profit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Shelly Clay-Robison -- Interrupting the cycle of violence : art, marginalization and collective national trauma in Iraqi Kurdistan / Autumn R. Cockrell-Abdullah -- Peacebuilding work in restricted political environments : local NGO-government relations in the South Caucasus / Margarita Tadevosyan -- Local responses to neoliberalism and historical trauma in El Salvador / Matthew Bereza -- An identity-based approach to community resilience / Karina V. Korostelina -- Ecovillages, sustainability, and social and environmental healing / Joe Cole -- Conclusion and future directions / Jeremy Rinker and Jerry Lawler.

"Current neoliberal social and economic realities have had enormous impacts on the abilities of oppressed groups and marginalized communities to realize resistance and innate resiliencies. How does the ubiquity of neoliberal economic forces exacerbate traumatized populations' helplessness, and, thereby, influence their inability to grapple with their oppressors and engage in fruitful change solutions? This edited volume asks how nonviolent conflict practitioners might intervene to 'treat' traumatized, and often marginalized, populations suspended in the predicament of 'acting in' and 'acting out' their collective traumas. Treating trauma is an integral aspect of successful peacebuilding work. This work aims to explore the role of trauma in peacebuilding and illuminate the ways that neoliberal marginalization impacts trauma-informed peace work"--