VIth International Conference for Health and Human Rights. Cavtat, Croatia, 21-24 June 2001.

Day 3 - Truth, Justice and Social Reconstruction

Keynote lectures

Paz Rojas Baeza: Alteriaciones en la salud mental por la ausencia de verdad y justicia.(Mental Health disturbances due to absence of truth and justice. english abstract spanish abstract full article (english) full article (spanish)

Edita Ostojic: Telling the truth. abstract full article

Individual presentations (abstracts and full articles)

Oscar Jesus Gomez Cordoba: El enfoque psicosocial en las comisiones de la verdad. (The psychosocial approach to truth commissions) abstract full article

Elisa Neumann, Carlos Corvalan: Democratic reconstruction and impunity. english abstract spanish abstract full article (english) full article (spanish)

Terence Dowdall: Survivors, perpetrators and social change: the role truth commissions, with particular reference to South Africa. abstract full article

Balainesh Araia, Nancy Farwell: Silent pain: Rebuilding community among Eritrean survivors of war rape. abstract full article

Marina Ajdukovic: Violence against women: mental health and human rights issues in the aftermath of war. abstract full article

Ariel Eytan et al: Prevention and detection of PTSD in asylum seekers from Kosovo: a pilot intervention in Geneva. abstract full article

Rajaram Subbian: Working with children affected by ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka. abstract full article

Victor Manuel Espinoza Cuevas, Maria-Luisa Ortiz Rojas: Las debilidades de una politica centrada en las comisiones de verdad. abstract full article (spanish)

Rosa Lia Chauca Sabroso: Hilando suenos y sentimientos. spanish abstract english abstract full article (spanish)

Jose Vera: Veinticinco anos despues. Las necesidades prioritarias de los afectados por la represion politica durante la dictadura. abstract full article (spanish)

Individual presentations (abstracts only)

Zandile Nhlengetwa: Community based trauma and reconciliation work in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. abstract

Gavin Bradshaw: Evaluating long-term conflict management strategies for protracted social conflict background. abstract

Viriato Castelo Branco, Marie Guerrero Castelo-Branco: Children and youth participation in peace building. abstract

Alimamy Marah: Breaking the cycle of impunity in Sierra Leone. abstract

Pam Bell, Ljilijana Oruc: Women in war: the nature and extent of psychosocial responses to conflict and atrocity. abstract

Sahika Yüksel, Ufuk Sezgin: Intervention and writing expert report for sexually abused cases were still in prison. abstract

Lionel Bailly et al: A five year mental health intervention in Gorazde. abstract

Willem van der Put, Kees Wiebering: Social cohesion as a contributing factor to both psychosocial problems and solutions. abstract

Sahika Yüksel et al: The role of physicians during hunger strikes. abstract

Onder Ozkalipci et al: Manual on the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - the Istanbul protocol. abstract

Bidur Prasad Osti: A preliminary report: prison visit in Nepal. abstract

Gode Onkos Imbamba: Psychological problems of child soldiers: current situation in Kivu (Dem. Rep. Congo). abstract

Nymia Pimentel-Simbulan: The health impact of internal displacement among women and children in Mindanao. abstract

Ruth Cespedes: Propuesta integral desde la salud mental en la formacion de una comision de la verdad, justicia y reconciliacion. abstract

Carmen Wurst, Mirtha Osso Linch: Secuelas familiares de la desaparicion forzada, en familias ayucuhanas. abstract

Thematic Symposia (abstracts only)

Miklos Biro et al: A survey of attitudes to social reconstruction in Vukovar and Mostar. abstract

Dean Ajdukovic, Dinka Corkalo: Barriers and facilitators to social reconstruction. abstract

Dino Djipa, Mirsada Muzuz: A study of attitudes to justice and reconstruction in Mostar. abstract

Warvey Weinstein, Eric Stover: Attitudes towards justice and social reconstruction in Vukovar and Mostar. abstract

Eric Stover: An interview study of prosecuted witnesses who have testified before the ICTY. abstract

Pamela Blotner: Artists and culture in the aftermath of war in former Yugoslavia. abstract

Harvey Weinstein, Laurel Fletcher: An interview study of Bosnian judges and prosecutors. abstract