Mr. William Devas:

That is where the rubber hits the road. The Glencree centre did a joint piece of work, entitled Journeys Out, with the International Conflict Research Institute at the University of Ulster - INCORE, Intercomm Ireland and the Peace and Reconciliation Group from Derry. It examined how people deal with the past, and one of its findings was that community responses are needed. These means looking at local communities and identifying their strengths and abilities to deal with issues and the collective trauma they have suffered. I am not aware of how much further the idea has been taken in terms of identifying what sort of process communities could implement. The point I was trying to make is that individuals and families have suffered but the suffering has been much more widespread. There are many people living with trauma who may not have a loved one listed in Lost Lives or who may not feature in a list of injured but are traumatised as a result of what happened in their communities. A collective response is, therefore, needed. Some African societies would take a much more community orientated approach to dealing with this issue based on the idea, "Your trauma is my trauma". We are a much more individualistic society and tend to focus, perhaps naturally, on the individual. I do not claim to know the solution but there are some areas where a community approach would be beneficial. I do not claim that Glencree or any other organisation has worked out how to do this, although I know where we would start, namely, by getting communities together to start talking about how they would deal with it collectively.