ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on high-impact events that occurred pre-migration, thereby completely overlooking any resettlement issues. As discussed in, Sierra Leone experienced heightened forced migration during the period of its civil war. The study reported in this chapter aimed to describe the participants experience cycles on moving to the United Kingdom. Six participants aged between thirty nine and seventy three years took part in the study: four female, two male. All were resident in Sierra Leone for part or all of the civil war. The evidently flourishing lives of the participants in this study indicated that their construct systems had successfully evolved to adapt to their new lives in the United Kingdom. Of particular interest in this study was the fact that all six participants experience cycles indicated the superordinacy of safety. In the repertory grid analyses of this study, however, the constructs of forgiveness and resilience were not closely correlated except for two participants, Farah and Thomas.
