Israeli-Arab Children; Citizens in a Global World (age 8-15 years)

careif and The Triangle Research and Development Center (TRDC) at The Tel Aviv University are pursuing a school project, that brings together children from schools in Israel and the UK .

The Arab community of Israel faces many challenges due to the geo-political context of Israel, their position as an ethnic minority within Israel, and other socio-cultural factors that impact on their human development and quality of life.

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Counter-terrorism approaches grounded in the criminal justice system have not prevented violent radicalisation. Indeed there is some evidence that these approaches may have encouraged membership of radical groups by not recognising Muslim communities as allies, citizens, victims of terrorism, and victims of discrimination, but only as suspect communities who were then further alienated. Informed by public health research and practice, a new approach is proposed to target populations vulnerable to recruitment, rather than rely only on research of well known terrorist groups and individual perpetrators of terrorist acts.

Call for a public health approach to the prevention of violent radicalisation, arguing that this approach has the potential to foster social inclusion and social justice in communities that feel threatened by terrorism. This approach can facilitate the identification of factors to protect individuals from induction into violent ideologies during critical developmental periods.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/16/abstract

Phase Two of this research starts soon. Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Suicide by burning in the South Asian origin population in England and Wales a secondary analysis of a national data set

Tuck A, Bhui K, Nanchahal K, McKenzie K.

This study shows Suicide by burning remains a significant issue in the South Asian origin working-age population in England and Wales. A prevention strategy could target working-age people of South Asian origin born abroad as they are at the highest risk.

For more information, please visit http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22184588/?i=1&from=bhui%20k

Beards & Bow Ties - animated film.

A short animated film on the image of psychiatrists - written, directed and narrated by Dr Kamran Ahmed. This film was first shown at Medfest 2011, the first national medical film festival - www.medfest.co.uk