A Collaborative Photovoice Research Project with Young People from the Halifax Regional Municipality who have 'Aged out' of Care and Experienced Homelessness
The Finding Our Way Home research project, supported by Dr. Melanie Doucet (Project Designer & Supervisor, Adjunct Professor, McGill University School of Social Work) and Elizabeth Clark (Research Coordinator, PhD Student, Dalhousie University), was a Participatory Action Research (PAR) Photovoice study conducted in collaboration with eight young people (ages 19-26) who had ‘aged out’ of care and experienced homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The project showcased the lived expertise of the youth co-researchers through powerful images and accompanying captions, as well as concrete recommendations for child welfare policy, practice, and supports. The project aimed to identify pathways and processes of systemic exclusion that placed young people with histories of child welfare system involvement at a higher risk of homelessness compared to other young people. This project was part of the larger Youth in Transition Study and was intended to supplement its findings. The findings provided a nuanced explanation of both the risk and protective factors that influenced young people’s trajectories from the child welfare system to (and out of) homelessness.
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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.
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