Addressing Conflict Nondefensively

Navigating the Landscape of Conflict: Applications of Dynamical Systems Theory to Addressing Protracted Conflict

Addressing decisional conflict about fertility preservation: helping young female cancer survivors' family planning decisions.

BACKGROUND Health professionals are challenged by a growing number of young long-term cancer survivors with their specific needs with regard to family planning. This study aimed at assessing decisional conflict (DC) in young female cancer patients regarding fertility preservation, identifying demographic, fertility and fertility preservation related factors, which may affect DC, and assessing t...

Addressing maternal and child health in post-conflict Afghanistan: the way forward.

Afghanistan's maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The country faces challenges to meet the Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 which can be attributed to multiple causes related to accessibility, affordability and availability of health-care services. This report addresses the challenges in strengthening maternal and child health care in Afghanistan, as ...

Addressing Violence by Recording the Casualties of Conflict: A Study of 40 Practitioners

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THIS PAPER This paper focuses on casualty recording: the attempted comprehensive, systematic and continuous documentation of individual conflict deaths or the incidents in which these occur, as a way of understanding and addressing conflict violence. The paper proposes that there is a broad field of casualty recording, made up of a connected range of different app...

Widening the debate about conflict of interest: addressing relationships between journalists and the pharmaceutical industry.

The phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World newspaper in Britain has prompted international debate about media practices and regulation. It is timely to broaden the discussion about journalistic ethics and conduct to include consideration of the impact of media practices upon the population's health. Many commercial organisations cultivate relationships with journ...