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In today’s era, the world faces the largest number of displaced people since the World War II, wherein a massive number of refugees fleeing to various countries has become a new reality. The response by the media and public indicates fear, anxiety, and a lack of trust, which are logical consequences of the current discourse that focuses on blame and anger. This chapter describes theoretical perspectives of trauma on the brain, and shares various restorative approaches emphasizing a compassionate-witnessing model. It discusses the urgent need of creating safe communities for the refugees and suggests restorative practices to facilitate the process. The authors share actual examples from a refugee-hosting camp in a Western European country, and how the integration of restorative practices allows trust and respectful communication to develop and strengthening relationships. This makes it possible to use restorative approaches to respond to conflicts. The chapter recommends how staff, educators, and volunteers could respond with compassion and empathy to traumatized refugees. The suggested restorative processes could be shared with staff and volunteers’ training, higher education faculty in preparing future teachers to work with refugee students, and with teachers who are challenged, working with refugee population.

This chapter focuses on the concept integration and its wider meaning in the context of refugees and internally displaced people across the globe. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the various interventions used to integrate refugees and the efforts implemented by the non-governmental organizations and local governments toward achieving an optimal level of integration with host communities. Using case studies and other empirical research, this volume presents a broad and in-depth overview of the various methods implemented to integrate the refugees into the society. This chapter provides an overview to this volume and establishes a framework for a better understanding of the nature of integration. It also reveals the complexity of the perception-practice dynamic and the multifaceted factors, which influence the various levels of integration.