Panel discussion and Book launch
Tuesday 10 February [1.15 to 2.45 p.m.]
in Conference Room 8, at UN Headquarters -
Trauma Interventions in War and Peace:
Prevention, Practice and Policy.

? war, torture, violence, poverty, disease, discrimination, and
domestic abuse: these great human ills sicken the individual psyche,
tear families apart, and send shock waves through society.
With such words, Secretary-General Kofi Annan introduces Trauma
Interventions in War and Peace: Prevention, Practice and Policy
(Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers).
Trauma Interventions was inspired by the 1995 Social Summit and is
the product of a series of lively meetings that the authors held at UN
Headquarters -- with civil society groups, Government officials and
United Nations staff including DESA (as lead agency), OCHA, WHO,
WB, UNSECOORD and others.
With cultural and gender sensitivity, Trauma
Interventions proposes model interventions at the levels
of society, community, family and individual. It supports
prevention. It prioritizes resiliency. It distills knowledge
about trauma generated over the past two decades.
And it proposes that a traumatic stress perspective can
enrich UN responses to populations in distress. It seeks
to be a ?living document? and catalyst for continuous
learning and information exchange across cultures and
disciplines.
Panel discussion and Book launch:
Tuesday 10 February: 1.15 to 2.45 p.m.
Conference Room 8.
?. book discounts at launch.
For access to the UN building for this event, please contact Rita Chung at
chungr@un.org or (212) 963 8765 by Tuesday 3 February.