Millions of people witnessed early, repeated television coverage of the September 11 (9/11), 2001, terrorist attacks and were subsequently exposed to graphic media images of the Iraq War. In the present study, we examined psychological- and physical-health impacts of exposure to these collective traumas. A U.S. national sample (N = 2,189) completed Web-based surveys 1 to 3 weeks after 9/11; a s...

SUMMARY Earlier studies demonstrate psychological consequences of extraordinary physical and emotional hardships experienced by prisoners of war. In August 1990 first groupsor Iranian prisoners of war returned from their captivities in Iraq. We took the opportunity to study their psychological conditions during their stay in temporary placements. This report highlights the result of our findin...

this essay tries to study the reflection of iran- iraq war in four relatively important and referable encyclopedias (wikipedia, inkarta, conflicts encyclopedia, and britanica). it compares these four encyclopedias' towards the origins of the war, the aggressor, great powers' role, and its results. obviously, knowing other countries' (specially their scientific scholars') att...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...

I was disappointed and saddened by the carelessness of the title ‘Going to war does not have to hurt’ in the June issue of the Journal (Hacker Hughes et al, 2005). One does not even have to mention the considerable number of British casualties in Iraq to realise that this headline is completely ill thought out and a particularly misplaced euphemism that fails to appreciate that war in modern ti...

I was disappointed and saddened by the carelessness of the title ‘Going to war does not have to hurt’ in the June issue of the Journal (Hacker Hughes et al, 2005). One does not even have to mention the considerable number of British casualties in Iraq to realise that this headline is completely ill thought out and a particularly misplaced euphemism that fails to appreciate that war in modern ti...

this essay is about the iraqi nation involved in iran-iraq war and two iraq-america wars. the writer of this paper has done a wide field research among iraqi war prisoners in iran and among iraqi military refugees in other countries. he has used the statistical findings of this research to support his explanations. he has written about iraqi people motivations to take part in these wars. furthe...

I was disappointed and saddened by the carelessness of the title ‘Going to war does not have to hurt’ in the June issue of the Journal (Hacker Hughes et al, 2005). One does not even have to mention the considerable number of British casualties in Iraq to realise that this headline is completely ill thought out and a particularly misplaced euphemism that fails to appreciate that war in modern ti...

centuries of historical rivalry, ethnic particularity, religious and ideological differences, and boundary disputes have been among the major forces contributing to a protracted conflict between iran and its western neigh bors- the ottoman empire from 1517 and iraq since 1920. one of a combination of these factors have caused numerous military hostilities and many full-scale wars. the recent ir...