(CO611) Chapter 10 - Terms

Question 1

Trauma

Answer 1

An extraordinary psychological experience, caused by a threat to one’s life or bodily safety or a personal encounter with violence and death that overwhelms ordinary human functioning.

Question 2

Ubuntu

Answer 2

An African concept or value, called forth by Nelson Mandela in an effort to reinstate justice to people in South Africa after the end of apartheid, that emphasizes the interconnection of all people and beings.

Question 3

Reparations

Answer 3

Acts of compensation offered to victims in an effort to restore what has been lost. An aspect of the restorative justice model.

Question 4

Restitution

Answer 4

The return of property, things, and even human remains to their rightful owners. An aspect of reparations.

Question 5

Refugee

Answer 5

A person who, owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality.

Question 6

Immigration

Answer 6

The movement of people into a country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there. Immigration is done for many reasons, including temperature, breeding, economics, politics, family reunification, natural disaster, poverty, or the wish to change environments.