The Mental Health Costs of Armed Conflicts-A Review of Systematic Reviews Conducted on Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and People Living in War Zones. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Aims: Armed conflicts produce a wide series of distressing consequences, including death, all of which impact negatively on the lives of survivors. This paper focuses specifically on the mental health consequences of war on adults and child/adolescent ...
Carpiniello B.
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Estimating the Number of Civilian Casualties in Modern Armed Conflicts-A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2021 Objective: To examine the possibility of estimating the number of civilian casualties in modern armed conflicts. Methods: A systematic review was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, using
Khorram-Manesh A +3 more
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Anesthesia Provision in Disasters and Armed Conflicts. [PDF]
Curr Anesthesiol Rep, 2017 Purpose of reviewDisasters and armed conflicts are characterized by high numbers of trauma cases, and occur mainly in developing countries where the healthcare response is already impaired, resulting in an inadequate response.
Trelles Centurion M +2 more
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Toward the remote monitoring of armed conflicts. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2023 The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily used for military and intelligence purposes, but today they permeate every aspect of armed conflicts ...
Sticher V, Wegner JD, Pfeifle B.
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Impact of Armed Conflicts on Public Health Infrastructure and Services in Oromia, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Background Oromia is the largest national regional state in the Ethiopian federation. It covers over a third of the country’s landmass. In terms of sheer geography, Oromia is about the size of the sovereign European state of Germany.
Gutema G +4 more
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War Psychiatry: Identifying and Managing the Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Armed Conflicts. [PDF]
J Prim Care Community Health, 2022 War refugees and veterans have been known to frequently develop neuropsychiatric conditions including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety disorders that tend to leave a long-lasting scar and impact their emotional response ...
Jain N +20 more
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Civilian science: the potential of participatory environmental monitoring in areas affected by armed conflicts. [PDF]
Environ Monit Assess, 2019 Legal and policy initiatives to address the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and their impact on people, ecosystems and sustainable development are highly dependent on the availability of environmental data from conflict-affected areas.
Weir D, McQuillan D, Francis RA.
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The surprising decline of international mediation in armed conflicts
Research & Politics, 2020 We identify and investigate a fundamental puzzle in contemporary mediation of armed conflicts. Although the preparedness of international mediators has increased, the proportion of armed conflicts that receive mediation has not increased, but decreased ...
Magnus Lundgren, Isak Svensson
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Armed conflicts and experience of intimate partner violence among women in Afghanistan: analysis of the 2015 Afghanistan DHS data [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjective Armed conflicts and intimate partner violence (IPV) impose a burden on individual and societal well-being. Given the history of armed conflict in Afghanistan and the high prevalence of IPV, this study aims to examine the influence of armed ...
Quanbao Jiang +3 more
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Can mouse clicking be seen as involvement in armed conflict? Some notes on the direct participation in hostilities in cyberspace [PDF]
Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2013 Contemporary armed conflicts are increasingly based on new technologies. These technologies enable to conduct hostilities from a distance, often eliminate the human factor from the battlefield. Nowadays, cyberspace created by the Internet allows to frame
Tomasz Lewandowski
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