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“We still have tribalism in the camp”: navigating ethnic conflict in a psychosocial support group

ABSTRACT Refugees of differing identities and even feuding factions come together in refugee camps around the world in a mutual search for protection. Physical proximity, however, does not erase the difference and division that preceded their forced displacement. Interpersonal conflict and stress are anticipated challenges for social workers to navigate when providing services in refugee camp settings. In transit camps, where refugees are often only recently removed from the conflict and where they may spend only a few days together, group meetings may be a place where tension and disputes are voiced. However, the group setting at this acute stage of forced displacement also offers a forum for psychosocial support that initiates unity-building. This narrative reflects cross-cultural social work group practice conducted in a refugee transit camp in Uganda, and our efforts to practice critical reflexivity about identity, similarity, and difference in a humanitarian emergency setting.