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Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their Intersection

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The constructs of trauma theory and human rights have emerged in different disciplines over several decades as frameworks to document and address human suffering. Although traumatic events and human rights violations often occur together, an understanding of how these frameworks intersect and may complement each other has been lacking. To address this conceptual gap, this chapter examines the history, conceptual development, advances in, and limitations of these constructs, as well as how they may intersect in victims’ experiences. The authors argue for an approach that integrates these frameworks to augment our understanding of the causes and consequences of, and possible interventions for, human suffering, and to consider trauma within broader social contexts shaped by economic, social, and political imbalances of power.

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Butler, L.D., Critelli, F.M. (2019). Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their Intersection. In: Butler, L.D., Critelli, F.M., Carello, J. (eds) Trauma and Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16395-2_2

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