Peace Projects: Trauma Relief
Iraqis Meditate At The Art Of Living International Center, India
Overview
Breathe for trauma relief
The Art of Living’s stress-elimination breathing techniques have helped people release the past and move on with hope and peace of mind. Mental healing compliments material aid, leading to holistic rehabilitation.
Ending the Trauma of Violence
After war and terror attacks, the mind suffers from trauma caused by violence – of family and friends lost, homes destroyed and culture disrupted. Although crucial, material aid, alone, does not satisfy the victims’ need for care and aid. Their minds need attention and love after such traumatic events. The Art of Living trauma care workshops help people rebound and be free from the deep impressions of shock and sorrow left by conflict, enabling participants to release the past and move on with hope and peace of mind. They also assist those trapped outside a conflict to handle their frustration, preparing them to enter into relief work with a calm mind, strength, and resolve.
Xenophobic attack in Cape Town, South Africa
The Art of Living awarded for peace work during Xenophobic attacks The Masiphumelele community, Cape Town, South Africa was awarded the annual Reconciliation Award from the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation...
Ethnopolitical conflict in Ossetia
Peace in times of conflict Since August 2008, the region witnessed tension and clashes on the brink of war between Georgia and South Ossetia. Despite numerous peace efforts, the ethnopolitical conflict...
Erasing memories of the blast
Suburban railway bomb blasts, Mumbai, India On July 11, 2006, Mumbai, India's financial capital, was hit by a series of seven bomb blasts within 11 minutes on its suburban railway. The attacks left 209...
Helping war refugees in Lebanon and Israel
During the one-month long war in 2006 between Lebanon and Israel, The Art of Living aided people on both sides of the conflict. Trauma relief courses were held for people living in northern Israel. The...
Reaching out to war victims in Afghanistan
The Art of Living, through its trauma relief workshops, brought relief and peace to war victims, including women and children, and others traumatized by over two decades of war and strife. Through the...
Sharing the pain of terror attack victims in Madrid
The 2004 Madrid train bombings were a series of coordinated bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid on the morning of March 11, 2004, which killed 191 people and wounded over 1700. Witnesses...
Sowing Seeds of Peace in Israel and Palestine
The long-drawn conflict between Israel and Palestine on the one hand and war with Lebanon on the other took a very high mental and emotional toll on the people of the region. Despite the danger, Art of...
9/11 terror attack in New York, USA
9/11 Terror Attack New York, USA (September 2001) On September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamic terrorists affiliated with Al-Qaeda carried out coordinated suicide attacks, hijacking and intentionally crashing...
Strengthening a City’s Spirit - 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack
26/11 remains a date etched in the psyche of many people. Many watched as forces turned two city hotels and a residential apartment block into killing fields. It was to be 48-hours before the terror attacks...
Ethnic conflict, Sri Lanka (2005 to present)
Easing the Trauma of a Prolonged Civil War Sri Lanka (2005 to present) Sri Lanka’s population has suffered through decades of conflict between the army and Tamil separatist groups in a protracted civil...
Rebuilding Iraq
“If any country's citizens needed de-stressing it would be those of Iraq. The Art of Living Foundation has a history of taking on tough tasks. It has operated similar de-stressing courses in Macedonia,...
Antidote to the virus of terror
by Mamta Kailkhura The resilience of India is on test yet again even as her people reel in another phase of fear, sorrow and anger following the latest serial blasts in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. India,...
Healing Breath Flows Through Kyrgyzstan
“International Association for Human Values (IAHV) gives hope to people, teaches us to live in spite of difficulties, and teaches us to forgive and enjoy every moment of our life given by the Creator!...
Love In The Time of Insurrection
How simple it is, to characterize an event as black, or white. This is exactly how the sordid Assam riots have been viewed, or made to be viewed. ‘Communal, anti-national and violent,’ have been the common...
Towards A Fresh Breath of Life
Have you observed what happens when rain falls on parched earth? When the skies open up to a free fall of unbiased, all encompassing, loving, fresh rain? That is what Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji’s...
A Space of Higher Living
‘Militants’ – today, this word has a commercial value. It has also got a pictorial representation in most of our minds, most of them polarized. Not only has it got politicized, it has also got religion...
Through the Jungle of the Mind
(This article is a continuation of the previous article - A Space of Higher Living ) “We would guard through the night, in shifts, 1 hour shifts… after the hour we would go and wake the next comrade for...
Hope and Healing for Molenbeek’s Stricken Mothers
In a world where terrorism is affecting every country, Europe has sprung a sad surprise: Belgium reports the largest numbers of youth departing as fighters to the civil war in Syria, leaving their families,...