BACKGROUND The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the deadliest since World War II. Over a decade of fighting amongst an array of armed groups has resulted in extensive human rights abuses, particularly the widespread use of sexual violence against women. METHODS Using a mixed-methods approach, we surveyed a non-random sample of 255 women attending a referral hospit...

The number of refugee torture survivors worldwide is accelerating given violent global conflict, and healthcare providers are more likely to encounter refugees in their practices. The World Health Organization has declared the existing refugee migration an international humanitarian disaster, considering it the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. The United Nations High Commis...

OBJECTIVES To examine posttraumatic growth (PTG) and its predictors social acknowledgment as survivors, sense of coherence (SOC), trauma severity, and further factors in former child soldiers more than 60 years after deployment. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING University-based geropsychiatric center in Germany. PARTICIPANTS One hundred three former German child soldiers of World War II, m...

This article analyses the life stories of female Jewish refugees and survivors in 1950s Britain in order to explore their relationship with the existing Jewish community and wider society. The paper is based on an analysis of twenty-one oral history testimonies from the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust collection held at the British library. Around 50,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe ca...

BACKGROUND After a steep decline in older generations, coronary heart disease mortality is stagnating in female cohorts born after the Second World War. We analysed past trends and predicted future health care needs for coronary heart disease in the Dutch population. METHODS A loglinear age-cohort model relates numbers of deaths and hospital admissions for coronary heart disease to sex, age, ...

Buchi Emecheta’s novel about the Nigerian Civil War, Destination Biafra (1982), challenges war historiography in ways that scholarship designating it a “female perspective” on conflict can sometimes overlook. This article focuses how Emecheta deploys dual narrative approach weaves an omniscient narrator with diverse women’s points of view order to position their lived experiences and subjective...

This response to Jason Moralees’ article comes from members and associates of the Êzidi (Yazidi) team working on Sinjar Lives/Shingal Lives, a community-driven oral history project funded by UK’s Arts Humanities Research Council. They are all survivors genocide committed ISIS in 2014. explore Moralee’s themes securitisation, imperialism violence—especially ‘village war’, its roots imperialist t...

Global population of forcibly displaced people has been reported to exceed 65 million in 2015 [1]. Although international community is highly aware of people who had passed the borders of their country and called as refugees, internally displaced people (IDP) are far more than refugees and not getting as much attention as refugees by the civilized world. As a consequence of collapsing of the Ir...