RESILIENCE BASED ON HOPE, HONOUR AND DIGNITY, Empathy and Torture free model village, Resilience RESILIENCE BASEED ON HOPE, HONOUR AND DIGNITY (original) (raw)

Torture and police atrocities further aggravate the already dire poverty situation and marginalisation of the downtrodden people in the majority of rural areas in different parts of the country. Torture normally happens in far-flung villages of the country where Dalits, backward social groups and minority are unable to fight effectively to defend their rights. They are the primary targets and victims of police torture. Without the awareness of their rights, these marginalised peoples suffer in silence and brokenness. The combination of trauma from exposures to individual violence to structural violence and police torture creates significant impact on development, health and wellbeing of any individual. Trauma survivors may be able to describe their experiences objectively, but cannot necessarily address the vital personal issues of helplessness and guilt. Injustice and exploitation remains core to these traumasand therefore development, health and wellbeing cannot always proceed smoothly. Small steps for justice can accumulate and result in qualitative change in due time. The model village processes are based on the resilience theory. Torture free village is a village where every individual is assured of his or her social, political, economic, and cultural rights as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is living together within the society without any form of Torture and Organised Violence (TOV). PVCHR believes in participatory activism, which means collective demand generations through peoples' advocacy and social transformation that could create torture free villages through Testimonial Therapy based on healing, education and empowerment. The whole processes provides protection and minimise risk, there are many opportunity to participate, to make significant contributions to life of the community and to take on the role of full-fledged citizen.