Mental Health Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict

描述（由申请人提供）：种族政治冲突是一个全球性的问题。 群体间和社区间的暴力破坏了 几百万在NIMH的支持下，宾夕法尼亚大学 所罗门阿希民族政治冲突研究中心于1999年成立， 暑期研究所为博士后暑期研究员有兴趣了解 缓解民族政治冲突。正在提供第二个研究所 2001年，由其他来源提供资金。此应用程序是对 2000年6月提交了竞争性延期;它寻求对另外两个项目的支持 2003年和2005年的暑期学校。这些长期目标 教育计划是（1）鼓励和准备心理学家和其他 社会科学家追求的研究事业，将促进理解 族裔群体暴力和心理健康的原因和动态 对个人和社区的影响，以及（2）从而有助于 制定有效的干预措施，减少族裔冲突， 促进受害者及其家属的心理社会康复和福祉 在这些冲突之后。具体目标包括：（1）教育研究员 在广泛的社会科学理论，研究方法， 研究民族政治冲突及其心理健康的相关发现 （2）促进研究合作的发展， 研究员，以及（3）进一步发展和完善研究所的形式， 课程，包括基于互联网的开发和其他 远程教育产品，以便更广泛地传播。2003年和 2005年夏季研究所将汇集大约15名研究员， 心理学和相关学科的一个密集的十周计划;每周 将包括四天的上午演讲和下午讨论 与民族政治冲突和心理健康方面的主要专家举行会议， 一天专门用于审查，整合和发展研究重点 工作组。在每个夏季学院结束时，阿希中心 预计将提供四个或五个夏季研究员与为期一年的研究 在中心的国际网络网站提供研究金，并提供适度的 研究所成立后合作研究发展的启动资金 暑期实习生中的项目这些暑期学校，结合 阿希中心的其他举措，将大大增加数量， 研究人员的兴趣和专业知识，在心理健康方面， 种族冲突。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ethnopolitical conflict is a global tragedy in which intergroup and communal violence devastate the lives of millions. With NIMH support, the University of Pennsylvania's Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict introduced in 1999 a Summer Institute for postdoctoral Summer Fellows interested in understanding and ameliorating ethnopolitical conflict. A second Institute is being offered in 2001 with funding from other sources. This application is a revision of a competitive renewal submitted June 2000; it seeks support for two additional Summer Institutes in 2003 and 2005. The long-term objectives of these educational programs are (1) to encourage and prepare psychologists and other social scientists to pursue research careers that will advance understanding of the causes and dynamics of ethnic group violence and the mental health consequences for individuals and communities, and (2) to contribute thereby to designing effective interventions for reducing ethnic conflicts and for promoting the psychosocial recovery and well-being of victims and their communities after these conflicts. Specific aims include (1) educating Fellows in a broad curriculum of social science theories, research methods, and findings relevant to studying ethnopolitical conflict and its mental health effects, (2) fostering the development of research collaborations among the Fellows, and (3) further developing and refining the Institute format and curriculum, including the development of internet based and other distance-learning educational products for broader dissemination. The 2003 and 2005 Summer Institutes will each bring together approximately 15 Fellows from psychology and related disciplines for an intensive ten-week program; each week will include four days of morning presentations and afternoon discussion sessions with leading experts in ethnopolitical conflict and mental health, and one day devoted to review, integration, and the development of research-focused working groups. At the conclusion of each Summer Institute, the Asch Center expects to provide four or five of the Summer Fellows with one-year Research Fellowships at the Center's international network sites, and to provide modest start-up funds for the post-Institute development of collaborative research projects among the Summer Fellows. These Summer Institutes, in combination with the Asch Center's other initiatives, will significantly increase the number of investigators with interest and expertise in the mental health dimensions of ethnic conflict.