RT Article
T1 Critical Reflection on Our Responses to the Syrian Crisis: Attitudes, Labels, and a Parable
JF Transformation
VO 35
IS 2
SP 133
OP 139
A1 Accad, Nadia Khouri
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1665362243
AB 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.
K1 Adversity Activated Development
K1 Lebanon
K1 Syria
K1 Refugees
K1 Trauma
K1 War
DO 10.1177/0265378818783591