Background: The skin is among the main tissues affected bySulfur Mustard (SM) in chemical attacks. Iranian researchershave performed extensive studies on the exposed victims andhave reported a wide spectrum of information in this field. Themain objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive<sp...

The objective of this longitudinal study was to determine psychosocial predictors of military misconduct in a cohort of Marine Corps war veterans. The study included data from 20,746 male Marines who completed a life history questionnaire during initial basic training and were subsequently deployed to a combat zone. Associations between psychosocial variables, psychiatric diagnoses, and subsequ...

Eastern Tasmania was the scene of horrific violence between 1824 and 1831. The Black War, as it became known, claimed the lives of well over 200 colonists, and all but annihilated the island’s remaining Aborigines (see Figure 3, page 2). It was a small guerrilla war, but one of titanic proportions for the colonists and Aborigines involved. They were settlers gambling everything in the hope of m...

Those of us who had attended the memorable first meeting immediately after the war, greeted each other as friends. had become a focus of interest and effort not only concerning the welfare of child victims of the war, but its principles could affect all our mental health work for children. Delegates from the 15 countries represented gave reports on activities in their countries which showed the...

Laos is a small country about the size of Utah. A Lao physician jokingly told me with a sad smile that "Americans thought Laos was a part of Vietnam during the war." The war in Laos was, however, an intentional secret war. The number of bombs dropped during the Vietnam War was greater than the bombs dropped in Europe during World War II. This bombing, which left an enormous number ofUXOs (unexp...

The author of the article highlights most important issues today, in particular relationship between norms and principles international law, human rights fundamental freedoms during non-international armed conflicts related to violations Article 2 Convention for Protection Human Rights Fundamental Freedoms November 4, 1950. This is very relevant because it covers one law its applied violation F...

Exotic tales and dramatic details about Muslim women’s views of Bosnian society are uncommon. In fact, few Muslim women in Bosnia are overtly Islamic in appearance or action. Rather, they blend into a secularized society in which Islamic heritage provides traditions and values, not dogma. Despite this assimilation, 12 Bosnian women relate 3 different but connected features of their lives: the e...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has surgically treated 49 946 war wounded from all sides of the Afghan conflict. Two hospitals were established in Peshawar (1981) and Quetta (1983) on the Afghan border of Pakistan and inside Afghanistan in Kabul (1988). One quarter of all war wounded were injured as a result of antipersonnel mines. In 1980 a UN weapons convention adopted spe...

War veterans diagnosed with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience serious difficulties in social, professional and family life. Consequently, their wives often become indirect victims of their husbands' dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to assess the caregiver burden and burnout level in partners of veterans suffering from PTSD, especially in cases where partners suf...

The long-term toll of war captivity on secondary traumatization (ST) on adult children has recently been exemplified. Several studies have also revealed that indirect exposure to trauma might be accompanied by positive psychological changes. This study examined secondary posttraumatic growth (SG) among adult children of former prisoners of war (ex-POWs' children) who were compared with adult ch...