Inka Weissbecker
@iweissbecker active 1 month, 2 weeks ago-
Relinde Reiffers posted an update in the group Intervention Journal 1 day, 18 hours ago
Call for papers: Special issue of ‘Intervention’ on psychosocial work and peacebuilding
Although there is increasing attention for the complex relationships between individual trauma and the larger social contexts in which they occur, we still have only a fragmented understanding about the ways in which psychosocial interventions and practices in…[Read more]
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Abala joined the group Mental health services by qualified professionals 5 days, 10 hours ago
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Lisa posted an update in the group Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) 6 days, 21 hours ago
INEE bi-wkly newsletter, mentions MHPSS ECCD group and shares link:
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467&id=ccdfe69430
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TVandenbosch joined the group Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) 1 week ago
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Mathijs Hoogstad joined the group Syria Crisis 2011-2013 Response 1 week, 1 day ago
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Ferdinand Garoff joined the group Syria Crisis 2011-2013 Response 1 week, 1 day ago
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
By Theresa S. Betancourt, Stephanie Simmons, Ivelina Borisova, Stephanie E. Brewer, Uzo Iweala, and Marie de la Soudière. Comp Educ Rev. 2008 November 1; 52(4): 565–587.
“This study aims to fill this gap [in research] and presents the perspectives of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, their caregivers, and community members speaking to the…[Read more]
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: When children affected by war go home Lessons learned from Liberia (SUMMARY) to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
“This is a summary of a report that was written and researched by Krijn Peters with Edwin Dorbor (interpreter and research assistant) and Sophie Laws (research adviser) in 2000, and edited by Bridget Pettit and Celia Petty. The research included three months of fieldwork in Liberia, and was guided by project advisory teams in the UK and Liberia…[Read more]
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: Transitional Justice and Youth Formerly Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups: Acceptance, Marginalization and Psychosocial Adjustment to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
Betancourt, T.S. and Ettien, A. (2010). Working Paper No. 2010-17, Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Focusing on reintegration of children affected by war in Sierra Leone, the f indings of this study “support the need to adopt a broader view of transitional justice to meet the needs of war-affected children and families, particularly…[Read more]
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: The Rites of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
Journal article by Susan Shepler in Journal of Human Rights, 4:197–211, 2005.
“This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in Sierra Leone.” -
Malia Robinson uploaded the file: Girls in Militaries, Paramilitaries, and Armed Opposition Groups to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
A paper by Susan McKay, R.N., Ph.D, and Dyan Mazurana, Ph.D.. (Undated, but circa 1999-2000).
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT AND SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH ARMED FORCES AND ARMED GROUPS: THE STATE OF THE FIELD AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
A report prepared for Psychology Beyond Borders, by Theresa Betancourt, ScD, MA, Ivelina Borisova, MEd, Julia Rubin-Smith, MSPH, Tara Gingerich, JD, MA, Timothy Williams, MSW, Jessica Agnew-Blais, BA of The Research Program on Children and Global Adversity François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Harvard School of Public Health.…[Read more]
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: Girls Formerly Associated with Fighting Forces and Their Children: Returned and Neglected to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
A paper by Susan McKay, Malia Robinson, Maria Gonsalves and Miranda Worthern that outlines the considerable challenges facing girl mothers leaving fighting forces who seek to reintegrate into their communities in southern and western Africa. Often stigmatised and rejected by their communities, these girls struggle to find ways to earn a living to…[Read more]
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Malia Robinson uploaded the file: GIRLS IN FIGHTING FORCES: MOVING BEYOND VICTIMHOOD to Children Affected By and Associated with Fighting Forces or Groups 1 week, 3 days ago
A Summary of the Research Findings on Girls and Armed Conflict
from CIDA’s Child Protection Research Fund, by Myriam Denov, PhD. - Load More