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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 .