title: Academic model of trauma healing in post-war societies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to examine the implications for healing in a contemporary Balkan post-war context, and to provide a bridge-building model of trauma transformation, reconciliation and recovery through academic reconstruction and cross-border dialogue. Post-war societies are marked by the effects of massive, large group traumatization, and if not properly dealt with, long-term rehabilitation and social recovery cannot be expected. Unprocessed cumulative trauma that has become deeply embedded in the collective memory of the Balkan peoples over centuries, "chosen trauma", its trans-generational transmission and periodical reactivations across the Balkan have often been addressed in recent literature, in ethno-psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, sociology and anthropology. In order to deepen our understanding of the roots of collective (social) trauma and the specific traumatic experiences of different groups, and to offer different perspectives and information on how trauma can be dealt with, the "Trauma Trust Memory" multinational interdisciplinary research network is being established, and a groundbreaking workshop was held in May 2013 in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Tuzla Workshop showed that the active participation of affected groups in adequate coping with the past is required for post-conflict reconstruction, trauma healing and peacebuilding in the long run.
authors.affiliation: Health Centre Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. a.delic@bih.net.ba.
authors.forename: Amra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Delić
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Hospital Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Mevludin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasanović
authors.forename: Esmina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Avdibegović
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dimitrijević
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Experimental and Genetic Psychology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Camellia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hancheva
authors.affiliation: International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scher
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stefanović-Stanojević
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Streeck-Fischer
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hamburger
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014857:Warfare