Self-help tool helps Syrians deal with the trauma of war
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Focus Area: Psychological and Social Repair
Fighting Stigma and Providing Mental Health Care to Syrian Refugees
Yasmeen is a 28-year-old Syrian woman with a shy smile, a mother of three boys and a little girl, living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps. In the past seven years living in Za’atri, an urban settlement of …
Awareness Is the Beginning of Healing
Kafa Eweijan is from Homs, Syria, and has been a resident of the Za’atri Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, for six years. She is a Community Facilitator for Beyond Conflict’s Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology with our partner Questscope. Zakaria
…An Opportunity to Create a New Narrative of Mental Health
Khedari is a Ph.D. candidate at the New School and is one of the principal investigators on the Field Guide, leading the charge on the neuropsychology elements of the study. Also, she wrote a chapter of the Guide as well …
Neuroscience and Peacebuilding: Reframing How We Think About Conflict and Prejudice
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