Female survivors of abduction in armed conflict zone: psychosocial needs, rehabilitation, and reintegration pathway
type: CreativeWork
description: Armed conflicts and regional wars occur across the world and girls and women are often abducted, forced to live in captivity by their captors, and exposed to various adverse conditions. Upon return, one would have hoped that their rehabilitation is approached through personalised care. Yet, it has been found that these individuals are neither documented as returned women nor included in the planning and implementation of their rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. Focusing on the perspective of adult female survivors of abduction in northeast Nigeria, this research aims to gain an understanding of the survivors’ psychosocial needs and the best way to facilitate their recovery and reintegration into their communities after abduction in armed conflict zones from their perspective. This research contains four studies. Semi-structed interviews of ten female survivors from northeast Nigeria were conducted using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for study one. Five themes emerged: Seeking Safety from Chaos; Achieving Freedom; Physical and Psychological Loss; Support, Guardianship, and inclusion in rehabilitation planning and Physical and Mental Health. Using semi-structured interviews, seven participants from designated and host community camps were interviewed to establish how the participants’ rehabilitation is determined by where they live. Thematic analysis was utilised, and three themes were identified namely: Similarities between camps; Differences; and Shared sameness. Content analysis was utilised for study three which focuses on the human rights violation of women who returned and how these violations can be addressed. Study four is the formulation of rehabilitation pathway for women who survived abduction from armed conflict zones which is my original contribution to knowledge. Utilising multi-qualitative analysis methods, results from Studies One and Two show that some survivors have experienced varying degrees of psychological problems, …
abstract: Armed conflicts and regional wars occur across the world and girls and women are often abducted, forced to live in captivity by their captors, and exposed to various adverse conditions. Upon return, one would have hoped that their rehabilitation is approached through personalised care. Yet, it has been found that these individuals are neither documented as returned women nor included in the planning and implementation of their rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. Focusing on the perspective of adult female survivors of abduction in northeast Nigeria, this research aims to gain an understanding of the survivors’ psychosocial needs and the best way to facilitate their recovery and reintegration into their communities after abduction in armed conflict zones from their perspective. This research contains four studies. Semi-structed interviews of ten female survivors from northeast Nigeria were conducted using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for study one. Five themes emerged: Seeking Safety from Chaos; Achieving Freedom; Physical and Psychological Loss; Support, Guardianship, and inclusion in rehabilitation planning and Physical and Mental Health. Using semi-structured interviews, seven participants from designated and host community camps were interviewed to establish how the participants’ rehabilitation is determined by where they live. Thematic analysis was utilised, and three themes were identified namely: Similarities between camps; Differences; and Shared sameness. Content analysis was utilised for study three which focuses on the human rights violation of women who returned and how these violations can be addressed. Study four is the formulation of rehabilitation pathway for women who survived abduction from armed conflict zones which is my original contribution to knowledge. Utilising multi-qualitative analysis methods, results from Studies One and Two show that some survivors have experienced varying degrees of psychological problems, …
author: Adogu, Theodora
language: eng
keywords: Armed conflict, Returned women, IDP, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, Northeast
date published: 2024-11-4
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:50:29Z
provider: Abertay University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Abertay University