BACKGROUND Evidence is lacking on the mental health issues of internally displaced persons, particularly where displacement is prolonged. The COMRAID study was carried out in year 2011 as a comprehensive evaluation of Muslims in North-Western Sri Lanka who had been displaced since 1990 due to conflict, to investigate the prevalence and correlates of common mental disorders. METHODS A cross-se...

Rapid urbanisation is a key characteristic of the modern world, interacting with and reinforcing other global mega trends, including armed conflict, climate change, crime, environmental degradation, financial and economic instability, food shortages, underemployment, volatile commodity prices, and weak governance. Displaced people also are affected by and engaged in the process of urbanisation....

technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

In the last three decades, war, famines, natural disasters, and political upheaval have led many to be forced to migrate worldwide. In the 1970’s the number of refugees reached the estimate of 2.5 million, gradually increasing to 8.2 million within a decade, and by the 1990’s the number of refugees had reached 17 million [1]. As reported by the UNHCR (2013), the number of displaced has reached ...

This paper examines the gap between design and in-situ performance of solar streetlight interventions in two humanitarian settings. Displaced settlements often lack street lighting electricity. Given that off-grid streetlights produce surplus energy, we hypothesized this energy could be made available for daily usage, to improve system provide further access displaced populations. We recognize,...

Existing research on the relationship between alcohol and conflict has focused displaced populations viewed largely as a driver of post-war social problems such trauma violence. We draw qualitative in Sri Lanka Nepal to build more complex picture alcohol’s role societies that is attuned its political economy dimensions politically symbolic role. This article develops comparative multi-disciplin...