About This Project
In communities recovering from conflict, hope and resilience are not abstract ideals—they are essential foundations for rebuilding lives, relationships, and futures. This project was created to provide clear, accessible, and compassionate guidance for anyone navigating that journey.
Our Mission
The mission of this project is simple:
to make high-quality, culturally aware support accessible to people in post-conflict environments.
We aim to offer practical tools, educational resources, and emotional support
grounded in evidence-based approaches and real-world experience.
We also aim to help build meaningful connections among professionals and community leaders who share a commitment to strengthening resilience, supporting healing, and rebuilding hope within their own communities.
What You Will Find Here
- Guides on emotional and psychological resilience
- Community-centered approaches to healing
- Practical resources for recovery and everyday wellbeing
- Stories of strength from individuals and communities
- Tools for organisations working in post-conflict settings
Why It Matters
Conflict leaves deep marks—on individuals, families, and entire societies. But with the right support, people can regain a sense of stability, dignity, belonging, and control over their future.
Every resource on this site is created with that goal in mind: to nurture hope, rebuild strength, and support those moving forward from difficult experiences.
Hope is not a destination—it’s a path we walk together.
Our Team
Dr Suzanne M. Anderson
DPST, MSS, RSW – 0145, CCR
Dr. Anderson is a psychotherapist in private practice and director of Restorative Community Counselling in Singapore. With more than 20 years of international crisis-response experience across the United States, Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, and Myanmar, she brings extensive expertise across natural disasters, industrial accidents, and intentional-harm incidents such as terrorist attacks, school-based crises, and war-related trauma. Her doctoral research focused on trauma among women trafficked and sexually exploited in the Mekong region.
Dr Natalie Games
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Games is a Senior Clinical Psychologist at Alliance Counselling in Singapore, specialising in resilience, stress management, and mental wellbeing. She has supported communities affected by conflict in Ethiopia and Myanmar, and her doctoral research examined adult resilience and empowerment strategies. She also brings extensive educational and clinical experience from Australia, England, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Singapore.
Grant Rayner
Crisis Response Specialist
Grant supports organisations and individuals following crisis situations, drawing on more than 23 years of field experience across challenging environments including Afghanistan, Syria, Myanmar, Southern Thailand, Pakistan, Nepal, Somalia, and other locations. Since early 2025, he has focused on exploring meaningful opportunities to help Syrian people as they rebuild their lives and communities. This workshop is one of several initiatives he is contributing to in support of that effort.