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News and Reports

Briccetti, Kathy. Doctor says 'debriefing' delays healing of trauma. San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 2006.

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Policy Analysis and Practitioner Documents

Ager, Alastair, BA, MSc, PhD, AFBPsS, and Maryanne Loughry, PhD, Science-based Mental Health Services: Psychosocial Programs. Project 1 Billion. International Congress of Ministers of Health for Mental Health and Post-Conflict Recovery. Book of Best Practices: Trauma and the Role of Mental Health in Post-Conflict Recovery, Rome, December 3-4, 2004.

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Baingana, Florence, Ian Bannon, and Rachel Thomas. Mental Health and Conflicts: Conceptual Framework and Approaches. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2005.

Barsalou, Judy. Trauma and Transitional Justice in Divided Societies. Special Report no. 135. Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, April 2005.

Barsalou, Judy. Training to Help Traumatized Populations. Special Report 79. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, December 2001.

Barry, Binta and Nancy L. Pearson. "Rebuilding Communities: Training Trauma Survivors to Help Communities Heal after Atrocities." Minnesota: New Tactics Project of the Center for Victims of Torture, 2004.

Bloomfield, David, Teresa Barnes, and Luc Huyse, eds. Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook. Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2003.

Bouta, Tsjeard Bouta, S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Faith-Based Peace-Building: Mapping and Analysis of Christian, Muslim and Multi-Faith Actors. The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), November 2005.

Brahm, Eric. Trauma Healing. Beyond Intractability (January 2004).

Cullberg Weston, Marta. A Psychosocial Model of Healing from the Traumas of Ethnic Cleansing: The Case of Bosnia. Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, 2001.

Danieli, Yael. Groups for mental health professionals working with survivors. In Psychological Effects of Catastrophic Disasters: Group Approaches to Treatment, eds. Leon A. Schein, Henry I. Spitz, Gary M. Burlingame, Philip R. Muskin and Shannon Vargo, 841-876. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Inc. 2006.

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Hopwood, Julian, Chessa Osburn, Letha Victor, and Erin Baines. With or without peace: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Northern Uganda. Justice and Reconciliation Project, Field Notes 6 (February 2008).

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Geneva: Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2007.

Improving the Outcome Research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Programs in Post-Disaster and (Post)Conflict Settings. An Issues Paper for the CRED/EM-SEANET Expert Consultation. Bangkok, Thailand, 26-27 October 2006.

Kalksma-van Lith, Brechtje, Donatien de Graaf, Eveline Jansveld and Ans de Jager. State of the Art: Psychosocial Interventions with Children in War-Affected Areas. Amsterdam: War Child Holland, 2007.

McKay, Susan and Dyan Mazurana. Where are the Girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war. Montreal: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), 2004.

Mollica, Richard, and Laura McDonald. "Old Stereotypes, New Realities: Refugees and Mental Health." UN Chronicle 2 (2002): 29.

Mollica, Richard and Laura McDonald. Project 1 Billion: Health Ministers of Post-Conflict Nations Act on Mental Health Recovery. UN Chronicle 4 (2003).

Musisi, Seggane, MD and Prati wi Sudarmono, MD. Traditional Healing in Conflict/Post-Conflict Societies. In Book of Best Practices: Trauma and the Role of Mental Health in Post-Conflict Recovery. Rome: Project 1 Billion, International Congress of Ministers of Health for Mental Health and Post-Conflict Recovery, December 2004.

Peace first, Justice later: Traditional justice in Northern Uganda. Working Paper No. 17. Kampala, Uganda: Refugee Law Project, July 2005.

Nowrojjee, Binaifer. Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996.

Pearlman, Laurie Ann and Ervin Staub. Creating Paths to Healing. Trauma, Research, Education and Training Institute, 2002.

UNHCR. "Planning for Optimal Mental Health: Responding to Refugee Related Trauma." In Refugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration, 231-244. UNHCR and Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, 2001.

Van Der Merwe, Hugo, and Tracy Vienings, "Coping with Trauma." In Peacebuilding: A Field Guide, edited by Luc Reychler and Thania Paffenholz, 343-351. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Weine, Stevan, Yael Danieli, Derick Silove, Mark Van Ommeren, John A. Fairbank, Jack Saul, for the Task Force on International Trauma Training of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Guidelines for International Training in Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions for Trauma Exposed Populations in Clinical and Community Settings. Psychiatry 65, no. 2 (Summer 2002).

World Health Organization. Mental Health Emergencies: Mental and Social Aspects of Health Populations Exposed to Extreme Stressors. Geneva, 2003.

World Health Organization. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Guidelines. Geneva: The Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2007.

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Websites

Association Internationale dEthnoPsychanalyse (AIEP)

American Psychological Association

Association Primo Levi, soins et soutien aux personnes victimes de la torture et de la violence politique

Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg

The Child Trauma Academy

The Critical Psychiatry Network (the Bradford Group)

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)

International Traumatic Studies Program

International Peace Practitioners Network (IPPN)

Psychologists for Social Responsibility

Office of Psychosocial Issues: Consulting Development Research.

Physicians for Human Rights

Re-Imagining Peace. A Trans-Disciplinary and Comparative Effort Towards the Rebuilding of Functioning Societies After Mass Violence.

STAR. Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (a program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University and Church World Service)

Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO)

Trauma Information Pages

Trauma Research Net

Ubelele, the African Psychotherapy Resource Center

The World Federation for Mental Health

World Health Organization: Mental health

WHO: World report on violence and health

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