1st Edition

Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The authors address atrocity prevention through the framework of primary (pre-conflict), secondary (mid-conflict), and tertiary (post-conflict) settings. They examine the ways in which... Read more
 

Part I: Linking Concepts of Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Chapter 1: (Re)Conceptualizing Atrocity Crimes as Public Health Catastrophes
Randle C. DeFalco

Chapter 2: Supporting Mental Health in Conflict-Affected Settings: Effectiveness, Innovation, and Contemporary Challenges
Laura Miller-Graff

Chapter 3: Does it Feel like Justice to You?
Ellie Smith

Part II: Supporting Mental and Public Health Prevention Work in Pre-Atrocity, Atrocity, and Post-Atrocity Settings

Chapter 4: Over-Policed and Under Protected: Police Violence as a Symptom and Cause of Urban Violence in America’s Black Communities
James A. Densley

Chapter 5: Hatred Against Roma in Times of Pandemic
Margareta Matache, Jennifer Leaning, and Jacqueline Bhabha

Chapter 6: A Public Health Practice with an Integrated Psychosocial Approach:

Care Workers Serving Victims of Human Rights Violations in Ecuador
Carolina Guzmán

Part III: Group Identity, Victim Impact, and Community Relationships in Atrocity Contexts

Chapter 7: Syria after a Decade of Atrocity: Toward a Holistic Healing and Prevention Strategy
Majd AlGhatrif and Iyad Alkhouri

Chapter 8: Considering Intergroup Humiliation as a Risk Factor for Conflict and Violence Relapse and for Post-Conflict Mental Health Problems
Nuwan Jayawickreme, Brittney Vargas-Estrella, Justin Lacasse, and Eranda Jayawickreme

Chapter 9: Masculinity and Moral Sonhood among Former Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) Members in Mexico and Colombia
Erin K. McFee and Cecilia Dedios Sanguineti

Part IV: Ways Forward

Chapter 10: Multidisciplinary Needs and Assets Assessment for Atrocity Prevention: 

Values, Competencies, and Implications for Education, Training, and Collaboration
John M. McConnell

Chapter 11: Adapting a Transdiagnostic Mental Health Approach based on Prescriptive Matching in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Thröstur Björgvinsson, Myria Ioannouis, Eugène Rutembesa, Anastasios Petrou, Georgia Christou and Alexandros Lordos

Biography

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR).

Caitlin O. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State University in St Paul, MN.

Amy E. Meade is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and currently holds a joint faculty appointment as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as Assistant Psychologist at McLean Hospital.

Arlan F. Fuller is the Chief Operating Officer of Conflict Dynamics International. He worked for 12 years at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, serving as its executive director for seven years.