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Abdel Hamid Afana ![]() |
| Online Status | OFFLINE |
| Member Since | 11/13/2007 |
| Company: | Gaza Community Mental Health Programme |
| Address: | Gaza Strip, POBox 1049 |
| City: | Gaza City |
| Country: | Palestine |
| Displacement Experience: | Gaza Community mental health programme Royal Edinburgh Hospital Community mental health Psychotherapy for people Training and capacity building for Health and mental health professionals |
| Publications: | See http://displacement.net/Professional_profiles/Afana/afanabstracts.htm |
| Accomplishments: | Director of Training and Education Department Chair of International academic board of the Postgraduate diploma in community mental health |
| Highest Degree: | PhD is due to finish May 2003. |
| Cote d'Ivoire:Protest by Social Scientists |
| A large group of West Africa, Europe, and North American academics and social scientists, many of whom are students of population displacement, have signed onto an editorial written and circulated by a group of West African academics and social scientists. They argue that the former President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, is abusively clinging to power after having blatantly tried to falsifiy the recent elections. The point out that international bodies have confirmed that the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, has defeated Gbagbo. Nonetheless, the Gbagbo and his military supporters prevent the access to power of the newly-elected President. The likelihood of renewed violent conflict, civil war, and bloodshed in Cote d'Ivoire is high and increasing, involving obvious risks of renewed massive uprooting and population displacement. |