ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the value of intervening therapeutically at several levels, individually, as a family and at the wider level of the community. From early 1999, the British public were confronted with television images of the disasters facing Kosova: the killings, rape, mass graves, and the sight of evermore men, women and children fleeing burning villages to escape further violence and devastation. Political violence has profound, long-term effects on its victims. Perpetrated by the very agencies entrusted to protect and maintain order, it creates a context in which meanings are blurred, where the shift from protection to violence is obscured. The war has ended but much remains unresolved. Kosova is being governed by the international United Nations Mission in Kosova (UNMIK) administration. The physical environment of any therapeutic centre plays an important part in establishing a context of safety: each centre feels very much like a home, with a kitchen, bathroom, therapy rooms and sleeping accommodation for those in crisis.
