International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience
Open Access

Short Communication

Enhancing Family and Community Resilience and Wellbeing across the Generation The Contribution of Community-Based Sociotherapy in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Annemiek Richters^1,2

¹Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands

²Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I was a person who could not talk to anyone in my village and at school. My life was very bitter. I always had worries about my mother. I was forced to be always near her.” (Marie, daughter of a widowed genocide survivor) “Even if my father was a killer, I’m not. Why to be considered like my father, while in 1994 I was 4 years old?” (Jean, son of a father imprisoned for genocide crimes)