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

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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

As you know, at 14:46 of March 11, 2011, huge coast area of Northern and East Japan was attacked by great earthquake of Magnitude 10, which human being has ever experience in previous 1000 years. Most coast area was attacked by subsequent Tsunami that apparently took 20,000 lives at once. That area got unbelievable damages. Atomic plants in Fukushima prefecture got injured by this quake and tsunami and nuclear contamination has started. All the people in North and East Japan have suffered from shortage of electricity and planned power stop has started since March 11. That has given huge damage to our industries. Therefore, even Tokyo is unstable. Even psychiatrist like me has been psychologically unstable. My patients are still fearful of quake and more fearful of nuclear contamination. They suffer from so-called quake sickness and situational anxiety disorders.

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