Editors’ Note: The December 2004 tsunami captured the world’s attention and generated wide-spread and worldwide responses. A small number of previous Martín-Baró Fund grantees as well as “Friends of the Fund” live and work in communities affected by structural... Read more
Post-war
Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: The Lack of Mental Health Research and Resources among Affected Populations
Sritharan, J., & Sritharan, A. (2014). Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: The Lack of Mental Health Research and Resources among Affected Populations. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 4(3). This paper examines the available published literature on the post-conflict and... Read more
Mogapi, N. (2004). Reintegration of soldiers: The missing piece. Intervention, 2(3), 221-225. This paper is based on findings from a support group that was run at the Trauma Clinic in the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation... Read more
Book review: Magali Chelpi-den Hamer (2010) Youngest recruits: pre-war, war and postwar experiences in Cote d’Ivoire. Amsterdam, Amsterdam: University Press Intervention 2010, Volume 8, Number 2, Page 170 – 172 Read more
Akello, G. (2013). Experiences of forced mothers in northern Uganda: the legacy of war. Intervention, 11(2), 149-156. From 1986–2007, the Lord\'s Resistance Army inflicted severe suffering on civilians in northern Uganda through indiscriminate killing and child abductions. While both... Read more
Shackman, J., & Price, B. K. (2013). Mental health capacity building in northern Sierra Leone: lessons learned and issues raised. Intervention, 11(3), 261-275. Ten years after a brutal and protracted war, Sierra Leone remains very much in recovery. Despite... Read more
Lagerkvist, B., Mehic-Basara, N., Ceric, I., & Jacobsson, L. (2013). The Swedish support to Bosnia Herzegovina: rebuilding mental health services after the war. Intervention, 11(3), 249-260. In the aftermath of the war in Bosnia Herzegovina, a task group of... Read more
Suarez, E. B. (2015). Surviving juntas (together): lessons of resilience of indigenous Quechua women in the aftermath of conflict in Peru. Intervention, 13(1), 6-18. Research into survivors of war has largely focused on suffering, rather than on the resilience,... Read more
Miller, V. W., & Affolter, F. W. (2002). Helping children outgrow war. USAID. Chicago Helping children outgrow war is an overarching goal of educational reconstruction in post-conflict settings. Given the diversity and complexity of such settings, responses must be... Read more
The objective of this research project was to highlight and document how psychosocial project delivery in a post-conflict country incorporates relational understandings in its training of mental health workers. Technical assistance in humanitarian mental health contexts requires increased operational... Read more
