Session: Building Peace: Initiatives and Education

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5133.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Building Peace: Initiatives and Education

This session will explore educational, humanitarian, public policy, mediation, a “rights-based” approach to health care utilization, ethnographic, and other initiatives aimed at constructing a fundamental prerequisite of public health, namely, peace. The health impacts of peace-building efforts across a wide range of geographical locations, issues, and methods will be illustrated, including: non-violent, humanitarian efforts to overcome discrimination and violence associated with crossing the U.S.’ southern border; building a movement for a moratorium on capital punishment; the development of “altered mediation” methods to promote dialogue between Israeli Arabs and Palestinians; utilizing a rights-based approach in the health sector to promote peaceful resolution to the intra- and inter- community tensions arising in the conflict zone in Chiapas, Mexico; and an intervention to promote the mental health of families separated by war in El Salvador.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Describe the relationship between peace, conflict, and the health of populations; (2) List examples, and recognize the strengths and limitations of, peace-building initiatives; and (3) Identify methods for overcoming barriers to peace building in order to promote public health.

Presider(s):

Joy Marshall, MD

12:30 PM

Humanitarian responses to migrant deaths in the United States-Mexico desert borderlands