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Indicators of integration: final report
- Authors:
- AGER Alastair, STRANG Alison
- Publisher:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
... understanding of ‘integration’ that can be used by those working in the field of refugee integration in the UK; and thirdly, to design the framework for use by local projects and policy makers to assist them with the planning and evaluation of services for refugees.
The challenge of simple questions: positioning refugee mental health in the global health agenda
- Author:
- AGER Alastair
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, 1(1), December 2005, pp.5-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
To position refugee mental health more effectively on the developing global health and humanitarian agendas requires effective communication in policy-making processes. The author argues that the capacity to answer three questions determines the readiness of those working in this field to seek such influence. Reviewing current knowledge on the global context of refugee mental health with respect to the questions 'What is the need?', 'What can we do about it?' and 'Will it work?' suggests significant conceptual advance in this area over the last decade, and increasing consensus on broad intervention strategy. It remains important to document impact more effectively, however, if policy-markers are to be persuaded to invest more resources in promoting mental health interventions with displaced and war-affected populations.
Conceptualizing community development in war-affected populations: illustrations from Tigray
- Authors:
- AGER Alastair, STRANG Alison, ABEBE Behailu
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 40(2), April 2005, pp.158-168.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The focus of humanitarian and development assistance to post-conflict societies has in recent years typically broadened from narrow socioeconomic concerns to address broader mechanisms of social and psychological recovery within war-affected populations. Interventions seeking to assist in such recovery are, however, frequently contested in terms of aims and approach. Competing discourses regarding such support for communities are identified, and their ideological roots considered. A conceptual framework for psychosocial intervention in complex emergencies is presented, which seeks to relate together diverse approaches to community support within a single schema. The framework identifies three core domains with respect to which the resources of communities, the impact of conflict and means of intervention can be conceptualized. These three domains of human capacity, social ecology, and culture and values are illustrated with respect to the post-conflict setting of communities on the Tigray-Eritrea border. The framework suggests a number of concepts of relevance for structuring community development interventions in such settings. Two specific areas are examined in detail. First, the social capital concepts of bonds, bridges and links are elaborated, and the respective role of each in post-conflict recovery considered. Second, three key processes in conceptualizing the process of community development are identified as engagement, negotiation and transformation.