Looking to the Future with Burdens of the Past: Addressing Post-Conflict Mental Health in Uganda.

GDP - The Global Development Primer

English - September 29, 2020 14:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Conflict comes with long-lasting mental health challenges. Even decades after a conflict, combatants and those affected by conflict can endure suffering. But where are the resources to help with trauma and mental health in post-conflict states? Who funds them? How well do they work?
In this episode of GDP, Peter Steele shares his research on evaluating mental health resources in Uganda. Seeing that state services struggle to provide care to those in need, it is often down to third-parties to provide necessary care and treatment.
Peter Steele completed his Masters in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. His Master's thesis focused on systems of mental health treatment for war affected youth in Northern Uganda. Peter spent most of 2018 in Uganda conducting fieldwork out of the city of Gulu.
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