Quantitative analysis of conflict is a relatively new discipline that combines data collection, statistical analysis and modeling to understand war and inform political strategy. Our research group brings together an interdisciplinary group of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and political economists to use numbers and theoretical models to understand war.
No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain / Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. / Of course they're 'longing to go out again', - / These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk. / They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed / Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died, - / Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud / Of glorious war that shatter'd their pride... / Men who went out to battle, grim and glad; / Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad. This scientific study, corroborates women’s accounts of rape and other crimes against humanity that they have experienced in Darfur, as well as rape and deprivations of basic needs in refugee camps in Chad.
Oromos were tortured more often than Somalis, whereas Oromo men and Somali women were the ethnic/gender groups most often tortured. A number of possible explanations can be posited. The very high rates in the Oromo community may reflect long-standing interethnic conflicts. Somali women were more often tortured than Somali men. Anecdotally, Somali men were either killed in their home country or able to escape unharmed, whereas women and children had a more difficult time leaving the country.
Iraqi psychiatrists say the war and violence has taken a real toll on mental health of the entire nation, and that the number of mental disorders is on the rise across the country.
more than 110,000 Iraqis have died in violence since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights, argued recently, any attempt to view the two sides as "equally responsible" is an absurdity: one is a lightly-armed militia, effectively operating underground in occupied territory – the other the most powerful army in the region, able to pinpoint and pulverise targets with some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world.
Chomsky on Gaza.
Any Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in the Gaza Strip will be given state protection from prosecution overseas, the country's PM has said.
Short history of current conflict in DRC.
PTSD Checklist
From 1965 to 1973, when the Arab-Israeli conflict was at its peak in Egypt, he worked in psychiatry in military hospitals, serving at front line posts in Sinai and producing a thesis on the effects of the stress of military service on young men.
she was brutally beaten and repeatedly gang-raped, but survived to become the first woman to break her people's cultural taboos about rape and speak out in the Western media about her experiences, exposing what was happening in Darfur. Readers of Tears Of The Desert, her harrowing account of her life, will be overwhelmed by pity and rage.
Epidemiological survey conducted between 1997 - 1999 among survivors of war or mass violence (aged >16 years) who were randomly selected from community populations in Algeria (n=653), Cambodia (n=610), Ethiopia (n=1200), and Gaza (n=585).
The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur.
I find closed Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that is not a concussion a spurious diagnosis.
can u simply claim that psychiatric disorders are a brain injury/insult/trauma? is this invisible brain trauma a psychiatric or neurological one. Is it P.C. or Acute Stress reaction/PTSD ? psych stigma ?
screen capture from call for duty video game .. WW3 in Cairo, Egypt
The picture shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.
The war on google maps
black smoke from power plant fire
war on google earth
bir al abid district in beirut
a news blog about the war with graphic pictures that wouldn't be published elsewhere..
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