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Category : Internally displaced persons
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Medical Interventional Study of War Affected Kitgum District, Uganda
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Internally displaced persons
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Medical Interventional Study of War Affected Teso Region, Uganda
Author: Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies
Author: Doris BussPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317679970
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments. The chapters are organized around three main themes: the continuities between conflict sexual violence and post-conflict insecurity; the troubling category of "victim" and its representation in post-conflict settings; and the international contexts – such as international programming, aid and justice interventions – that shape how conflict sexual violence is addressed. The authors come to the topic from various academic disciplines - anthropology, gender studies, law, and psychology - and from different non-academic contexts, including civil society organizations in affected regions, and policy and activist organizations in the Global North. Collectively the chapters in this volume offer complex and detailed analysis of some of the debates and dynamics shaping contemporary understandings of conflict sexual violence, highlighting, in turn, new insights and emerging topics on which further research and advocacy is needed.
The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa
Author: Mel GrayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029372
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights multiple practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that have recently been or are currently practising social workers. As an edited book, it draws from both academic research as well as lived practice experience, supported by strong theoretical positioning and guidance in introductory chapters, drawing on African literature, wherever possible. Looking at case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania and covering established areas of practice such as child protection; working with older people; working with people with disabilities; mental health; and mainstream services targeting women as well as emerging areas of developmental social work practice, such as humanitarian assistance in post-conflict situations; work with immigrants and refugees; and the training of community-based workers, this book takes a future-oriented perspective that aims to move beyond well-worn critiques to envision constructive and sustainable futures for social work and social development in Africa from a critical perspective.
Women, Development and Peacebuilding in Africa
Author: Jennifer BallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319979493
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book explores and reflects on peacebuilding, which emerges from the experiences and realities of women’s lives in East Africa, specifically, in Uganda. The author argues that often these community based peacebuilding efforts are responses to women's struggles for survival — both individually and for their families and communities. Carefully analyzing education, women's roles, human rights, conflicts, disability and immigration, this book helps to understand African women's roles in development and peacebuilding in the region. The project will interest development studies and African politics scholars, graduate students, researchers and policy makers.
Mental Health of Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations
Author: Nexhmedin MorinaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319970461
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV). There are currently hundreds of millions of individuals affected by war and conflict across the globe, and over 68 million people who are forcibly displaced. The field of refugee and post-conflict mental health is growing exponentially, as researchers investigate the factors that impact on psychological disorders in these populations, and design and evaluate new treatments to reduce psychological distress. This volume will be a substantial contribution to the literature on mental health in refugee and post-conflict populations, as it details the state of the evidence regarding the mental health of war survivors living in areas of former conflict as well as refugees and asylum-seekers.
National Bibliography of Uganda
Author: The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women
Author: Kumudini SamuelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178699612X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women shows how political, economic, social and ideological processes intersect to shape conflict related gender-based violence against women. Through feminist interrogations of the politics of economies, struggles for political power and the gender order, this collection reveals how sexual orders and regimes are linked to spaces of production. Crucially it argues that these spaces are themselves firmly anchored in overlapping patriarchies which are sustained and reproduced during and after war through violence that is physical as well as structural. Through an analysis of legal regimes and structures of social arrangements, this book frames militarization as a political economic dynamic, developing a radical critique of liberal peace building and peace making that does not challenge patriarchy, or modes of production and accumulation.
The Scars of Death
Author: Human Rights Watch/AfricaPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Capture and early days.
Long Term Impact of War, Civil War and Persecution in Civilian Populations
Author: Thomas WenzelPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889714195
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description