The Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies will be organized jointly with the Third Istanbul Human Security Conference on 24-27 October 2013 at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. 'Human Security and Forced Migration: Dilemmas and Prospects' is proposed as a panel as part of this conference.
Although there is increasing attention for the complex relationships between individual trauma and the larger social contexts in which they occur, we still have only a fragmented understanding about the ways in which psychosocial interventions and practices in conflict and post-conflict situations influence long-term collective social processes of peacebuilding, reconciliation and other forms of social transformation.
The next issue of the Observer - A Journal on threatened Human Right Defenders in the Philippines will tackle the question of powerful, global and national stake holders and their responsibility of protecting and implementing human rights.