Year: 2023 | Month: December | Volume 11 | Issue 2
Role of Nonviolent Communication in Making Deeper Human Connections: A Case Study of training in Nakivale Refugee Camp, Uganda
Gervin Baila Kitwika
DOI:10.30954/2454-9525.02.2023.4
Abstract:
The number of international refugees across the world is in millions and are increasing every year. The migrants and refugees who have fled their respective countries have to live in challenging situations often leading to mental health issues, stress, trauma and feeling of hopelessness. In most refugee camps there are meagre resources, limited health care facilities and often scarcity of basic resources like water, sanitation etc. In such stressful situations, there is likelihood of a stressful or toxic communication ecosystem. It is like when an inmate in a refugee camp becomes much stressed then her/his communication is also affected. It is in this context, there is need to introduce a healthy communication ecosystem. This paper is a result of an action training in the Gandhian approach to nonviolent communication by the author of selected inmates of Nakhivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. It tries to establish that training in nonviolent communication helps to make deeper human connections and can contribute to healthier interactions amongst people.
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