(2000). The effects of war trauma in Bosnian female civilians: A study description. In Powell, S. & Durakovic-Belko, E. (Eds.), Sarajevo 2000: The psychosocial consequences of war. Results of empirical research from the territory of former Yugoslavia. Sarajevo: UNICEF.Bell, Pam, Lilijana ...
Violence is ubiquitous in war and pervades all strata of society, although its occurrence is probably underestimated [20–22]. The 20th century saw a secular trend toward a greater proportion of civilians affected, especially women and children [23]. It is estimated that up to 90% of war-rel...
war will erupt. World War I was also known as “The War to End All Wars”, but it obviously failed to do so. The First World War was the most deadly large-scale confrontation that the old world had ever experienced. Thousands of people lost their homes as the war plowed through ...
It is intended, in the terms of the Committee's request, to "put what have been abstract measures of strategic power into more comprehensible terms. " The study examines the full range of effects that nuclear war would have on civilians: direct effects from blast and radiation; and indirect...
Somalia civil war– A civil war was fought in Somalia 1991. One of the most striking effects of the war was over fishing. The International Red Cross was encouraging the consumption of seawater fish to improve diets of civilians. For self-sufficiency they provided training and fishing equipment...
Humanitarian Action and "the Global War on Terror' Historically, humanitarian actors have not concerned themselves about the rights and wrongs of war per se, but with the how they are fought, and how their effects might be mitigated. In some respects, the 'global war on terrorism' is jus....
On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, resulting in America joining WW2. Many Americans left home to fight in the war, leaving those on thehome front, the civilians inhabiting the homeland of a nation at war, to fill required roles back home in industry, organizing...
The Germans held out to the northwest of Moscow until 5 December, and on the next day the first retreat order of the war was given. In the months of the offensive, German battalions and companies had dwindled to a handful of men. The Russian mud and winter had wrought havoc upon their...
"This is the first review of its kind to examine the links between armed conflict and the risk of heart disease among civilians" said first author of the study, Dr. Mohammed Jawad, from Imperial's School of Public Health. "Because of the nature of war, data is often scarce and patchy,...