Critical Reflection on Our Responses to the Syrian Crisis: Attitudes, Labels, and a Parable

This article takes a look at our responses to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon from the "micro" - or grassroots - level. Specifically, it examines how our attitudes and approaches, as responders, affect the lived experience of others during this extraordinarily sensitive time of displa...

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Autor principal: Accad, Nadia Khouri (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Sage [2018]
En: Transformation
Año: 2018, Volumen: 35, Número: 2, Páginas: 133-139
Clasificaciones IxTheo:HC Nuevo Testamento
KBL Oriente Medio
NCC Ética social
Otras palabras clave:B Lebanon
B War
B Refugees
B Adversity Activated Development
B Trauma
B Syria
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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Sumario:This article takes a look at our responses to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon from the "micro" - or grassroots - level. Specifically, it examines how our attitudes and approaches, as responders, affect the lived experience of others during this extraordinarily sensitive time of displacement. Three areas of reflection are discussed: the reductionist approach to identity, the pathologizing of those who go through suffering, and finally the exploration of a biblical understanding of integration, by looking at the parable of the workers in the vineyard ((Mt 20:1-16). In such a dynamic, restorative, and Christ-like community, both those "workers" who arrived early and those who arrived late are equally valued.
ISSN:1759-8931
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378818783591