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Acknowledgements
Many individuals have contributed to this work. We particularly thank our collaborators at the Psychosocial Reference Centre of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent( IFRC), who, in addition to supporting the project, reviewed several drafts; and LIMPAL-Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad-Colombia for reviewing the draft and preparing the first pilot training in Colombia. We also thank Human Rights Foundation Turkey for preparing and facilitating the second pilot in Adana, Turkey; AFESIP-Cambodia for preparing and facilitating the third pilot training in Cambodia; Kristin Andrea Wilmann for conducting a mini-pilot in Oslo, Norway; and the Arab Resource Collective in Beirut, Lebanon, for planning and facilitating a training in Amman, Jordan. HHRI thanks everyone who participated in these pilots for their feedback, and all those who reviewed the draft. We particularly thank Robert Archer and Fairouz El Tom at Plain Sense for their valuable input and for editing and finalising the document.
This work was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and we are most grateful to staff of the Ministry for their support, interest and confidence. This manual would not have been possible without generous backing and additional funding from the Norwegian Mental Health Project, which for many years has supported Health and Human Rights Info and remains strongly committed to this manual and its objectives.
The metaphor of the Butterfly woman was developed by Judith van der Weele and Annika With. It is described in Butterfly Woman: Handbook for women who live difficult lives( Oslo: Sommerfuglkvinnes forlag), a handbook they use in their training. The metaphor is included in this manual with the authors’ permission.
The text was prepared by a writing team composed of:
Nora Sveaass( responsible for the project) Katinka Salvesen Annika With Helen Christie Doris Drews Solveig Dahl Kristina Josefin Larsson Elisabeth Ng Langdal
See Appendix 1 for more information about the authors.