Trauma and Conflict Web Links

Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on trauma in zones of conflict and specifically, training for trauma relief. For regional information, please see related links at Regional Resources.

• General Resources
• Training Programs, Projects and Publications

These links complement the Institute Special Report: Training to Help Traumatized Populations.

General Resources

The sites below provide an overview and a variety of resources on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma.

• American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress (AAETS)
  The Academy's web site provides a description of the organization, its membership, credentials, a discussion forum on traumatic stress, and its official publication Traumatic Stress.
• David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages
  Web site has extensive links to material on trauma, including definitions, full-text articles, related web sites, handouts, and other resources (databases, e-mail discussion lists, electronic journals, selected readings, etc.) Compiled by psychologist David Baldwin.
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
  The web site includes resources for professionals, the public and the media. It publishes the Journal of Traumatic Stress, a newsletter and other materials. Also includes lists of links to related web sites among its resources.
• National Center for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
  The web site for the National Center for PTSD contains the PILOTS database (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress), "an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events." The Center's web site also includes fact sheets, publications, information for selected audiences and links to related web sites.
• The Psychology of Ethnopolitical Warfare: reconciliation, recovery, education and healing
  Part of the Canadian Psychological Association's web site, this web page contains links to related web sites, reports, curriculum, and conference material.
• Traumatic Stress and Secondary or Vicarious Traumatic Stress
  A collection of annotated web links to web sites, papers and other resources on traumatic stress compiled by Research Associate Professor Beth Hudnall Stamm.
• The Traumatic Stress Institute/Center for Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapy, LLC (TSI/CAAP)
  The TSI/CAAP web site provides an overview on coping with disasters and the stress of traumatic loss, research materials, descriptions of books, professional training information and a link to its nonprofit sister organization, TREATI, Inc., Trauma Research, Education, and Training Institute, Inc. TREATI's web site has further links to information on a program in Rwanda and a specialized training program for mental health and public health workers, Risking Connection.
  

Training Programs, Projects and Publications

• Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI)
  The web site for this interdisciplinary center, part of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, has descriptions of international projects which include work in the Caspian and Black Sea, Republic of Georgia, Estonia, and on a Turkish-Greek dialogue.
• The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
  The web site of the Center for Victims of Torture includes a report on public policy, research statistics, training resources, and a handbook for working with refugees who may be torture or war trauma survivors called New Neighbors, Hidden Scars.
• Draft Guidelines for International Trauma Training
  Guidelines developed by the Task Force on International Trauma Training, created in November 1999 by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The guidelines are for practitioners who develop local teaching and training programs intended to enhance local responses to trauma-related problems.
• A Graduate Level Curriculum for Trauma Intervention and Conflict Resolution in Ethnopolitical Warfare, May 1 2001
  Posted on the Canadian Psychological Association's web site, this curriculum is a product of the Ethnopolitical Warfare Curriculum Conference Planning Task Force of the Steering Committee of the Joint Initiative on Ethnopolitical Warfare of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations, and was supported by a grant from the United States Institute of Peace. Also available on the web site of Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
• Psychosocial and Trauma Response in Kosovo: a one year training programme
  Description of a "one year extra-curricular, inter-faculty training course on psychosocial and trauma response" produced by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in cooperation with the Faculties of Philosophy and Medicine of the University of Pristina.
• International Trauma Studies Program
  Web site includes five training programs: Training Program in International Trauma Studies, Refuge: Refugee Community Resource Center, Disaster Preparedness and Response, International Collaborations, Theater Arts Against Political Violence. The ITSP is now a training and research program at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
• Opportunities Industrialization Centers International, Inc.
  Web site of the organization, "a network of 46 self-help skills training programs in 19 countries," includes a description of its mission, history, programs, newsletters and brief reports.
• TWI 4 Kids: Training Workshops International
  The web site for TWI for the Children describes the mission of the organization, its work in Bosnia and several projects, including Coping with Trauma Training (CTT)

Updated: March 9, 2007