Wat voor souvenirs verkopen WO2-instellingen en hoe fungeren die objecten in onze herinneringscultuur? Journalist Nienke van Leverink sprak medewerkers van Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel, Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort en Oorlogsmuseum Overloon. 

Interview met Mark de Witt van Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel, Janneke Kennis, Oorlogsmuseum Overloon, Floris van Dijk, Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort.

De omgang met 'dark souvenirs' leidt al jarenlang tot veel ophef. Kees Ribbens pleit voor een open gesprek over hoe de economische omgang met de Holocaust vorm krijgt. 

Verschrijnen in rubriek: Stand van het debat

De "Holocaust-industrie" en "Holokitsch" brengen ons in een spagaat, schrijft Froukje Demant: de morele bezwaren tegen commercialisering en popularisering botsen met de eveneens morele oproep en plicht om de herinnering aan de Holocaust levend te houden. 

Many factors can contribute to suicide. The psychological drivers, however, are most examined. This focus on mental factors is supported by the global hegemony of the medical-psychiatric model. This is reflected in the global focus on preventing suicide by detecting and treating mental risk factors. Other factors that contribute to suicide, such as culture, receive less attention.

De aanbevelingen in deze toolkit zijn gebaseerd op de resultaten van een literatuuronderzoek en een pilotonderzoek in de JGZ. Om te beginnen is er een uitgebreid literatuuronderzoek uitgevoerd naar de betrouwbaarheid en validiteit van vragenlijsten voor het meten van PTSS, depressie, angst en algemeen psychosociaal welbevinden bij vluchtelingen, asielzoekers en ontheemde kinderen tot en met 18 jaar.

With this work, we intended to draw a cognitive portrait of openness to reconciliation. No study had yet examined the potential contribution of high-level cognitive functioning, in addition to psychological health, to explaining attitudes towards reconciliation in societies exposed to major trauma such as post-genocide Rwanda. We measured the contribution of general cognitive capacity, analytical thinking, and subjective judgements.

This paper presents a new global dataset on contemporary witchcraft beliefs and investigates their correlates. Witchcraft beliefs cut across socio-demographic groups but are less widespread among the more educated and economically secure. Country-level variation in the prevalence of witchcraft beliefs is systematically linked to a number of cultural, institutional, psychological, and socioeconomic characteristics.

This paper examines the relationship between transnationalism, cultural preservation, and transgenerational trauma in the United States (US) Indo population. The information being analysed was compiled by the author from two separate surveys which took place between 2012 and 2021. This data was initially intended to act as a census for the scattered US Indo community however the salient information necessitated that the census be ongoing and that another survey be developed to measure effects of lingering trauma which has been passed down generationally.

In the communication of pain, language matters. Telling someone to feel pain is not just a description of one’s pain, it is – as philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein informs us – also asking for recognition of that pain. This requires a shared language which communicates it. Do we need a new language which can communicate and recognize the pain of the colonial past more effectively?

Because of the rapidly increasing number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses in many fields, there is an urgent need to step up from meta-analyses to higher levels of aggregation of outcomes of RCTs. Network meta-analyses and umbrella reviews allow higher levels of aggregation of RCT outcomes, but cannot adequately cover the evidence for a whole field.