Conceptualizing community development in war-affected populations: illustrations from Tigray

The impact of the school-based Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program on conflict-affected children in northern Uganda

“…This is a key construct of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC, 2007), and of conceptual analyses of recovery mechanisms from the Psychosocial Working Group (PWG, 2002, 2003; Boothby, Wessells, & Strang, 2006) from which such guidelines heavily draw. Increasingly, field studies are documenting this dynamic between social reconstruction and personal well‐being (Ager, Strang, & Abebe, 2005; Ager, Stark, Olsen, Wessells, & Boothby, 2010b). Such literature has a major impact on our necessary understanding of the role and value of interventions in post‐conflict contexts.…”

The impact of structured activities among Palestinian children in a time of conflict

“…The intervention provided resources to children in a context of significant stress. The availability and deployment of resources in this manner may be key in understanding processes of protection and resilience in unstable environments (Ager, Strang, & Abebe, 2005).…”

Individual and Collective Dimensions of Resilience Within Political Violence

“…Fortunately, the higher structures on which well-being depend represent not only targets of political violence, but also important sources of community resilience, the subject of increased attention in the past decade (Ager, et al, 2005;Farwell & Cole, 2001). …”