Conflict and health

The following links concern Conflict and health in the Arab world. This page will be updated regularly so please visit often.

Suggest additional resources or tell us if a link is broken. Please write us at: phaw-admin@aub.edu.lb

Audio Visual Materials

Arabic Revolutions Come With A Plague (ViralMedia24, 2013)
Attacks and sanctions affect Syria's health sector - Syria (telesurenglish, 2012) (English subtitles avaialble)
Australia for UNHCR (Aus4UNHCR): Somalia - the impact of war (2009) - Somalia
BEST NEWS 2013 : - معاناة القطاع الصحي السوري من استهداف المستشفيات (TodayMultiNews, 2013)
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) - Palestine (AntiHasbara, 2009)
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle, Abdel Rahman Lawendy: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Q & A : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Dr Miri Weingarten - Symposmium on Conflict and Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Adrian Cousins, 2009)
Health Care for Palestinians Marooned by Israel [CARE and ECHO] - Palestine (wikiwoma, 2009)
Health Under Siege: The Gaza Model - Palestine (UCIrvineOCW, 2012)
Iraq's children suffer from a war affected health-care - Iraq (AlJazeeraEnglish, 2011)
Israel tries to break Palestinian psyche [©PressTV] - Palestine (World2Awakens5, 2012): Part 1, Part 2
Palestine pharmaceuticals pay the price - Palestine (AussieNews1, 2012)
Syria: Medicine as a weapon of persecution - Syria (MSFAustralia, 2012)
Syria Crisis - Syria (UNHCR)
(DuniyaKiKhabrain, 2012 ) انهيار القطاع الصحي في حلب - سوريا
أزمة القطاع الطبي في ليبيا بعد الحرب‎ (l80omarlllomar08l, 2011)

Bibliography and publications

UNFPA - Syria Crisis reports

Centers, institues, websites

Gates, S., Hegre H., Nygard, H.M., & Strand, H. (2010). Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Centre for the Study of Civil War, (PRIO). Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Global Action on Aging / Health Issues in the Middle East & North Africa / Armed Conflict (contains news articles)
International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) / Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen / Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Conferences

International Conference on the Socio-Economic Dimensions of the Syrian Conflict, 4 July 2013 (Beiurt, Lebanon)

Projects/programmes

Costs of War - Iraq 10 Years After the Invasion - Project examines the costs of the US-led war on and occupation of Iraq
REACH Initiative (ACTED and IMPACT Initiatives and UNOSAT) : Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Somalia, Syria, Yemen
The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) - Global Emergency Overview

Resolutions

UN Resolutions - Dag Hammarskjöld Library Research Guides (icons on the right contain health, environment, and security resolutions on some Arab countries)