Studies of children with atypical emotional experience demonstrate that childhood exposure to high levels of hostility and threat biases emotion perception. This study investigates emotion processing, in former child soldiers and non-combatant civilians. All participants have experienced prolonged violence exposure during childhood. The study, carried out in Sierra Leone, aimed to examine the e...

Armed conflicts have changed in complexity and nature over the past few decades magnifying health challenges for children. Conflict impacts children's health in four important ways. First, conflict‐driven displacement increases child death and injury, mainly through increased susceptibility to infectious disease from unsanitary living conditions. A case study on Southern Sudan illustrates that ...

INTRODUCTION Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs across the world, in various cultures, and affects people across societies irrespective of economic status or gender. Most data on IPV before World Health Organization multicountry study (WHOMCS) usually came from sources other than the military. Result of this study will contribute to the existing body of knowledge and may serve as a baseline...

Civilians in areas hit by earthquakes become particular concerned about the safety of family and friends. However, outages communications networks following these events limit their capacity to get information. So, people drive cars check on loved ones, risking own lives hindering activities first response organizations. This article proposes LoRaMoto, a system that allows civilians exchange in...

The subject of this article is the research Ponciano del Pino on attitudes Andean population in Peruvian armed conflict 1980–2000, with particular emphasis perspective applied by researcher his case study “En nombre gobierno”. aim text to demonstrate how relevant existing terror Andes Pino’s interest micro contexts war form inter- and intra-village rivalries and, consequently, treating acts pol...

Abstract There is an ongoing discussion regarding the role of mechanized forces in counterinsurgency warfare. Proponents note that they boost counterinsurgents’ ability to fight while critics point out diminish their gather information. This adds this by focusing on violence against civilians, outcome theory suggests should be affected mechanization via both these channels. Results from quantit...

BACKGROUND Armed violence is a major public health and humanitarian problem in Iraq. In this descriptive statistical analysis we aimed to describe for the first time Iraqi civilian deaths caused by perpetrators of armed violence during the first 5 years of the Iraq war: over time; by weapon used; by region (governorate); and by victim demographics. METHODS AND FINDINGS We analyzed the Iraq Bo...