At the invitation of a Ukrainian Baptist pastor in Bosnia, I have facilitated trainings with Bosnia Christians and Muslims, with the focus on issues of trauma recovery and reconciliation. Both my trips, in 2006 and 2007, included work in the cities of Sarajevo and Tuzla. One special group I worked with was a post-traumatic support group for Muslim Bosnian army veterans.
For BBC’s country background information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1066886.stm
About Me
- Daniel Buttry
- I am the Global Consultant for Peace and Justice with International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches. That means that I work around the world, usually on short term peace projects. My area of specialty is conflict transformation. Simply put, conflict transformation means turning conflict from negative, destructive experiences into positive, constructive experiences… in which problems are solved, unjust relationships are structured in more just ways, violence is replaced by nonviolent means of dealing with disagreements, torn relationships are reconciled, decisions become more participatory and traumatized people are supported for healing. About 70% of my work involves training people in nonviolent conflict transformation. I occasionally am involved in mediation. I write a lot and have published a number of books on various peacemaking topics.