New York, NY Dr. Hawthorne Smith, Director of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue’s Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT), was recently elected to a two-year term as the new President of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP), a U.S.-based network provider of services, education and resources for survivors of torture. As part of his
Midway through former President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, the social media silence is almost deafening.
Mr. Trump, of course, was permanently banished from Twitter on Jan. 8, two days after the Capitol riot he is blamed by Democrats for inciting. The ex-president has also made no TV or radio appearances since leaving office.
This pause in Mr. Trump’s relentless public presence could be serving him well. His poll numbers have rebounded a bit since plunging after the Jan. 6 sacking of the Capitol by his supporters.
In some ways, the former president is two entities – a man and an idea. Mr. Trump the man has a solid base of diehard supporters, giving him the potential to stage a political comeback and become the first U.S. president to win a nonconsecutive second term since Grover Cleveland in 1892. Mr. Trump the idea represents a breed of political thought – “conservative populism” – that could be the key to success for other Republican politi
Sierra Leone’s civil war spawned a generation of child soldiers and war-affected youth. Some fell into chronic depression and unemployment, while others became lawyers, doctors, and entrepreneurs.
For Ishmeal Alfred Charles, a former child recruit in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, trauma has given way to a fulfilling adulthood as a humanitarian worker.
Why We Wrote This
When a brutal war births a generation of child soldiers, why do some succumb to despair while others recover and thrive? A pivotal study suggests connection and community may be key to healing.
Why did some former child soldiers recover while others were overwhelmed with trauma? That’s one of the questions Theresa Betancourt, a Boston College public health researcher, set out to answer in Sierra Leone in 2002.