And after violence and death? For a pedagogy of reconciliation

Abstract

Of all the wars to which our lives may be subjected, there is one form of war that is consumed in collective silence, but which causes a number of victims – direct and indirect –, almost every day: feminicide. A violent, traumatic death, which shatters and tears apart the lives of sons and daughters requiring multi-professional in- tervention to contain risks of developing major psychopathologies. Together with the other professions that clinically intervene on trauma, a fundamental role is played by the pedagogical approach to mourning, in order to accompany the child or adolescent towards a new rethinking of his or her existence, and also to trigger resilience and enable a reconciliation with life. Pedagogical skills capable of creating a reconstruction process proper to the art of Kintsugi and thus offering the possibility of a new future of serenity.