You will cover aspects of theory, field work and advocacy focusing on working with domestic violence, refugee healthcare and healing torture victims. In each case you will consider the specific challenges of treating these victims of violence and the role you play in helping them.
What topics will you cover?
1) Three case studies demonstrate how health professionals can:
- Recognise and respond to domestic violence in clinical practice.
- Provide appropriate healthcare for refugees.
- Recognise and help in healing victims of torture.
2) Basic concepts in Medical Peace Work, including:
- Forms of violence: direct, structural, and cultural
- Hierarchies of violence: collective, interpersonal, and self-induced
- Levels of violence: mega, macro, meso, and micro
- Preventing violence
- Understanding peace as the negation of violence
- Risks and limitations of medical peace work
We also offer a course called Global Health, Conflict and Violence which you may be interested in. These courses combined contain material from our previous course Medical Peace Work.