Mental Health Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict

描述(申请人提供)：种族政治冲突是全球性的 群体间和社区暴力摧毁人民生活的悲剧 数以百万计。在NIMH的支持下，宾夕法尼亚大学 所罗门·阿施民族政治冲突研究中心于1999年成立 对理解感兴趣的博士后暑期研究员暑期研究所 以及改善种族政治冲突。正在提供第二所学院 2001年，从其他来源获得资金。此应用程序是 2000年6月提交的竞争续签；它寻求支持另外两个 2003年和2005年的暑期学校。这些项目的长期目标是 教育方案是(1)鼓励和准备心理学家和其他人 社会科学家从事研究事业，这将促进对 族群暴力的成因、动因与心理健康 对个人和社区的后果，以及(2)为此作出贡献 设计有效的干预措施，以减少族裔冲突和 促进受害者及其受害者的心理社会康复和福祉 这些冲突之后的社区。具体目标包括(1)培养院士 在广泛的社会科学理论、研究方法和 与民族政治冲突及其心理健康研究相关的发现 效果，(2)促进各国研究合作的发展 以及(3)进一步发展和完善研究所的形式和 课程，包括基于互联网的开发和其他 远程教育产品更广泛的传播。2003年和 2005年暑期学院将汇集约15名来自 参加为期十周的强化课程的心理学和相关学科；每周 将包括为期四天的上午报告和下午讨论 与种族政治冲突和心理健康方面的主要专家举行会议，以及 一天致力于回顾、整合和发展以研究为重点的 工作组。在每个暑期学院结束时，阿施中心 预计为四到五名暑期研究员提供为期一年的研究 在中心的国际网络站点上提供奖学金，并提供适度的 用于研究所后合作研究发展的启动资金 暑期研究员之间的项目。这些暑期学院，与 Asch中心的其他举措，将显著增加 对心理健康方面有兴趣和专业知识的调查人员 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.