Comments on: ART, BEAUTY, PAIN AND HEALING https://groundviews.org/2015/08/12/art-beauty-pain-and-healing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-beauty-pain-and-healing Journalism for Citizens Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2015/08/12/art-beauty-pain-and-healing/#comment-60169 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:46:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=17904#comment-60169 1.This week-long programme, Watch this space: Framing the past, untying the future(11 – 17 August 2015, Park Street Mews, Colombo) is stupendous and hope it will lead to discussions(in Sinhala and Tamil) inside and outside the universities across the country. The programme is a seed not only for peace in the short term but also for prosperity in the long term.
2.It ideally begins with this author who contributed her knowledge of law and human rights to the evolution of the UN in the area of Children in Armed Conflict and Women’s standing in the society.
3.”…. blaming everyone and of course the United Nations for doing nothing. ….”
The UN(=its members) is yet to devise a method to deal with oppressive regimes that stand between itself and the oppressed – it’s very sad that the Movement for UN Reform has only been growing very slowly:
Major General (ret.) Patrick Cammaert, Special Envoy of the Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflict, to Sri Lanka, 05-11 December 2010: ‘’It should be noted that the problem of accessing camps for humanitarian personnel persists throughout the country.’’
4.”Art, Beauty, Pain and Healing” literally has to deal with the constant impact of the post-war ”memorials” the then-regime erected in the Vanni: the design and location are not simply painful but particularly oppressive and foretold what has been mostly continuing to this day – causing much more pain, not any healing: soldiers upholding AK-47 at least in two memorials and one memorial in the form of a huge wall with a huge bullet stuck in it with huge cracks radiating from the point where the bullet is stuck. The then-President unveied the first memorial on 9 December 2009 in Nanthikadal while the UNofficial was in Sri Lanka on his mission to see how Sri Lanka is, in effect, dealing with the UN vision.

]]> By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2015/08/12/art-beauty-pain-and-healing/#comment-60162 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:32:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=17904#comment-60162 In reply to puniselva.

There is certainly an amount of therapeutic value in the speech itself and hence it must be translated into Sinhala and Tamil as the majority of Sri Lankans do not understand English and do not access internet.

]]> By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2015/08/12/art-beauty-pain-and-healing/#comment-60158 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:22:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=17904#comment-60158 Very good speech except one point: ”One has to wonder at this since it is against world experience.”

Research by psychologists consistently finds that therapy is sometimes helpful, sometimes harmful and sometimes has no effect. In fact, the first lesson in training in any form of therapy stresses that info.

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