dust-cover from reviews already given by daily papers and other journals. It takes a line somewhat reminiscent of behaviour therapy in encouraging individuals to believe that their symptoms are due to sensitization' and can be overcome by determination and retraining. The book is extremely well and clearly written. The problem with it is that it deals with a limited aspect of a common symptom. ...

BACKGROUND Patients with incurable, progressive disease receiving palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa experience high levels of spiritual distress with a detrimental impact on their quality of life. Locally validated measurement tools are needed to identify patients' spiritual needs and evaluate and improve spiritual care, but up to now such tools have been lacking in Africa. The African Pall...

The article reports the impact of Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty, children's perception of it/ the amount of traumatic experiences, and their personal resources on their self-esteem and neuroticism . The sample is a follow-up group of 64 i, Palestinian children of 11-12 years of age, living in theGaza Strip , The results showed that the level of neuroticism 'was significantly lower after the ...

Under the collaborative leadership of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP); the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley; the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America), this special report is launched to mark the first convening of The Missing Peace Symposium on Sexual Violence i...

A 2005 peace deal brought an end to 30 years of secessionist conflict in Aceh, Indonesia. The Helsinki agreement included provisions to disarm fighters from the rebel GAM movement and to reintegrate them into society. Three-and-a-half years on, peace is holding in Aceh. Yet while the Aceh post-war story is broadly positive, the experience of delivering reintegration support to former combatants...

The security externalities of globalization and capitalism continue to play an influential role in peace research. Typical contributions to these interrelated areas of scientific inquiry address the hope that the external openness (commercial liberalism) and the internal freedom of an economy (capitalist peace) pacify interstate as well as intrastate relations. I claim, despite the empirical su...

In past decades there has been growing interest in Diaspora engagement in development, however, this topic is discussed controversially. On one hand, Diasporas can have a positive developmental effect on their country of origin though civil society engagement in form of social, cultural and political projects, as well as economic transfers. Diasporas have sometimes been recognized as “agents fo...