Citation

Ray A. Peace Conflict J. Peace Psychol. 2017; 23(4): 363-371.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/pac0000281

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Abstract

The length, scale, and intensity of the Afghan conflict distinguishes it from other conflicts worldwide. This qualitative article explores violence in everyday life as experienced and encountered in the life of Afghans during the conflict in Afghanistan (1978-2012). Through 40 in-depth interviews conducted in Kabul over 6 months in 2012, a phenomenological framework is used to understand how violence becomes a part of everyday life. Analysis includes a 2-step process, integrating thematic and narrative methods, by which a multidimensional and holistic vision of the phenomenon of violence is obtained.

FINDINGS not only explain the processes by which individuals normalize violence in daily life, numb violence during childhood, and cope with the institutionalization of violence in the social sphere, but also illuminates modes of resilience and their function. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

Language: en