A handful of Jordanian and Yemeni social workers teamed up this past week to learn supportive techniques for helping people recover from trauma. In Yemen, the trauma(s) that made this training necessary are domestic – Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war of sorts in Saada for the past six years or so. Jordan, fortunately, has not experienced the same internal conflict … but it has a history of absorbing those who have experienced it elsewhere. Governmental sponsorship of this initiative falls squarely in the category of foreign policy.
