Rehabilitation in a Controlled Environment: An Alternative Approach

This chapter discusses an alternative approach to rehabilitation in a controlled setting like Swat valley. When one learns about the shortcomings in the current approaches to rehabilitation, notably those that were implemented in the Swat region, the need for establishing an alternate approach becomes apparent. The study discovered that the rehabilitation program run in Swat lacks uniformity and policy coherence. It primarily adopts a mixed strategy that combines elements of several strategies adopted from numerous rehabilitation programs performed around the world, with the majority of its components coming from UNIDDR 2006. The researcher came to the conclusion that the existing rehabilitation strategy is not appropriate for the nature and context of the conflict in Swat after examining the nature and context of the society in relation to that conflict. Swat’s situation is different, making it contextually incompatible with other countries’ approaches.