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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1. VerfasserIn: Accad, Nadia Khouri (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage [2018]
In: Transformation
Jahr: 2018, Band: 35, Heft: 2, Seiten: 133-139
IxTheo Notationen:HC Neues Testament
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Lebanon
B War
B Refugees
B Adversity Activated Development
B Trauma
B Syria
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Zusammenfassung: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
Enthält:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378818783591