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Storytelling as a Way to Work Through Intractable Conflicts: The German‐Jewish Experience and Its Relevance to the Palestinian‐Israeli Context
Author(s) -
BarOn Dan,
Kassem Fatma
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00112.x
Subject(s) - storytelling , the holocaust , judaism , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , german , sociology , psychology , narrative , political science , history , law , art , literature , archaeology
The storytelling method can be used to work through intractable conflicts. Working‐through enables people who have suffered traumatic social experiences to learn to live with these painful events while developing an ability to listen to the pain of the “other.” The storytelling approach focuses on the way personal storytelling facilitates the working‐through processes in intractable conflicts. The storytelling approach was used in To Reflect and Trust (TRT), a dialogue group that began in 1992 and involved descendants of Nazi perpetrators and Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors. The storytelling method was applied to a year‐long Jewish‐Palestinian student workshop held at Ben Gurion University in 2000–2001.