This article presents the semantic portal and Linked Open Data service WarVictimSampo 1914–1922 about war victims, battles, prisoner camps in Finnish Civil other wars 1914–1922. The system is based on a database of National Archives Finland additional related data created, compiled, linked during project. contains detailed information some 40,000 deaths extracted from several sources over 1,000...

Psychologic reactions are common after trauma. Much attention has been devoted to posttraumatic stress disorder after harrowing events, including natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, assault of individuals, episodes of mass violence such as riots and terrorist attacks, and combat. The prevalence of stress disorders varies among these studies, in part as a result of differences in s...

Since the end of twentieth century, work forensic professionals in contexts war has become a topic particular interest, among other reasons, because its importance clarification serious human rights violations. The purpose this article is to characterize experience frustration and emotional management strategies used by anthropologists working context Colombian armed conflict. Using semi-struct...

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) can arise from different traumatic incidents, such as war, torture, being kidnapped or held captive, mugging, child abuse, road accidents, train wrecks, plane crashes as well as natural disasters like earthquakes and floods. during each disaster, both victims and rescue workers are vulnerable to physical and psychological trauma that may lead to different f...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life measurements are necessary tools for current situation assessment of all populations. They are absolutely beneficial for evaluation of rehabilitation services which are known as major clinical sources for improving quality of life in physically impaired patients.The design and implementation of this study involved determination of the relationship betwe...

BACKGROUND Since 1998, the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been torn by a military conflict. A particular atrocity of the war is widespread sexual violence. METHODS In this combined retrospective analysis and prospective survey, we sought to identify hospital facilities and resources available to treat victims of sexual violence in Goma, the capital city of the North Kivu provinc...

This field research using participant observation critically analyzed the post-war reconciliation between Aceh Province and Indonesian Government. Special attention was paid to violent incidents at Rumoh Geudong, Krueng Arakundoe, Jambo Keupok. Besides, in-depth interviews with 16 informants who were engaged directly indirectly on problems collect data, followed by employing library sight findi...

The Homeland War in Croatia was still far from conclusion when, one day, the phone rang in the office of one of us (SV-P). “I heard you could help me obtain a DNA sequencer,” the voice on the other side said. “We need it to identify the victims from mass graves in Bosnia.” Unfortunately, the help was no more than providing a few connections that later proved useful. At the time, we did not even...

When crimes occur-when a ghetto teenager is shot to death in a gang war, when an elderly woman is mugged for her social security check, when a nurse is raped in a hospital parking lot, when one driver is punched by another in a dispute over a parking place, when a black family's new home is vandalizedsociety's attention is naturally focused on the victims and their material losses. Their wounds...