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Liberia’s only mental health specialist says the country is experiencing an increase in post-traumatic stress disorders because the country’s two disarmament processes during 14 years of conflict did not address the psychosocial needs of ex-combatants, especially that of youths.
Dr. Benjamin Harris said he returned to his home country of Liberia in 1996 to oversee health services for the UN-organised demobilisation, disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) of fighters following Liberia’s first civil war from 1989-1996.
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Vol.2
Sept/October 2008
Psychological Trauma: Cross cultural perspective
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Psychotraumatology &
Mediation Vol.3
Nov/December 2008
Pedocrimes: Treatment, Prevention & Justice.
"Pedocriminality, medico-psycho-social and legal approaches in the management of victims and offenders".  |
There are many Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that are active against the use of child soldiers.
« The role of an NGO is important on two level », claim Jo Becker, from Human Rights Watch.
The first one is the prevention, it means to persuade the governments and armed groups, not to recruit or use child soldiers within the armed conflicts. The other is the rehabilitation of the former child soldiers. [Read more]
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