Community-based sociotherapy was introduced in Rwanda in 2005 in order to contribute to the healing of social worlds that were severely damaged by war and genocide. People who participate in sociotherapy perceive this intervention as medicine for their troubled hearts. Each sociotherapy group, averaging twelve people, holds fifteen weekly meetings. Two facilitators guide the group through six different phases: safety, trust, care, respect, new rules, and memory.

While it is sensible that governments and academics endeavour to assess the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies, this article argues that it is almost impossible to measure arithmetically the outcome of counterterrorism efforts for a variety of reasons. However, this does not mean that the effect of governmental policy cannot and should not be assessed. This article argues that it is not necessarily the policy measures and their intended results as such, but much more the way in which they are presented and perceived, that determine the overall effect of the policy in question.

Vorgestellt werden die Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur traumatischen Belastung von Soldaten in Kriseneinsätzen. Eine Stichprobe von Soldaten wurde vor, während und nach dem Einsatz in einem Krisengebiet untersucht. Für die Erhebung wurden das Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ), das Beck Depressionsinventar (BDI) und ein in usammenarbeit mit einsatzerfahrenen Soldaten ausgearbeiteter Fragebogen zur Erfassung der speziellen Belastung von Soldaten in Kriseneinsätzen eingesetzt.

The refugee label acknowledges the plight of people marginalized, oppressed and pushed to the periphery of society. While having this status affords a number of rights from countries signatory to the 1951 UN convention, the concept of 'refugeehood' within resettlement contexts can become a master status that defines a person above and beyond any other form of identity. Drawing upon political theories of recognition, this dilemma is addressed by examining the powerful current Western discourses on trauma where refugees are often situated.