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January 13, 2021
Introduction  The 38 minute documentary Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience was filmed by award-winning filmmaker, Ron Bourke. It won the best documentary award at the...
October 15, 2020
The documentary Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience, made by award-winning filmmaker Ron Bourke, showcases the study conducted by the research team leading this...
October 15, 2020
In 2019, goals were to initiate a new project on the intergenerational transmission of trauma with Syrian refugees in Jordan, host several Colloquia on Humanitarian Systems,...
Children attend school in the Syrian refugee camp Zaatari, in the north of Jordan, about an hour's drive from Amman.  Soeren Stache/Picture Alliance/Getty Images
October 28, 2019
Alexandra Chen was a trauma specialist working in Lebanon and Jordan when she noticed that a specific group of kids were struggling in schools. Chen kept getting referrals...
The finding that poverty, and not exposure to violence and trauma, worsened working memory, was somewhat unexpected, given the high levels of war exposure in Syrian refugees, but is consistent with recent studies of U.S. children living in adversity, the researchers explained.
October 24, 2019
Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in young people displaced by conflict, according to a new Yale-led study of adolescents affected by the crisis in...
A young woman provides a DNA sample via cheek swab. She was among a cohort of Syrian adolescents forcibly displaced by conflict to participate in a study on the effects of genetic and resilience on the mental health recovery. (Photo courtesy of the research team.)
July 19, 2019
A new study demonstrates the influence of genetic factors and resilience — the resources and capacities for overcoming adversity — on changes in levels of psychosocial stress...
April 17, 2019
The Colloquium on Social Justice, Solidarity, and Forced Migration took place on March 7. It was funded by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and jointly...