Interdependence between health and peace: a call for a new paradigm

Abuelaish, Izzeldin; Goodstadt, Michael S.; Mouhaffel, Rim

doi:10.1093/heapro/daaa023

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“…Peace and health are complex and potentially interrelated terms which share social, psychological and spiritual dimensions. 10 Various definitions of peace have been proposed in the literature; for example, Royce defines peace as a ‘condition in which individuals, families, groups, communities, and/or nations experience low levels of violence and engage in mutually harmonious relationships’. Peace has also been defined as an experience affecting people and in specific contexts such as in a community, family or nation.…”

Section: Concepts Of Peace and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peace and health: exploring the nexus in the Americas

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The relationship between peace and health is complex, multifactorial and fraught with challenges of definitions, measurements and outcomes. This exploratory commentary on this nexus within a focus on the Americas posits this challenge clearly and calls for more scholarship and empirical work on this issue from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall goal of this paper is to try and explore the elements that impact the relationship between peace and health with a focus on the Americas (defined as countries spanning from Canada to Argentina) in the post-Cold war period. Focusing on the 1990s and onwards, we seek to underscore why violence continues to permeate these societies despite a third and lasting wave of democratisation in the hemisphere. We hope this will allow a more robust dialogue on peace and health in the regional and global health literature.

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Section: Concepts Of Peace and Healthmentioning

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Peace and health: exploring the nexus in the Americas

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“…The intersections between peace and health play a crucial role in transitions from conflict to peace (Abuelaish et al, 2020;Burnham, 2020;Idrobo et. al, 2018;Shimony et al, 2019).…”

Section: Peace Without Healthmentioning

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‘Peace is not just the suspension of war:’ peace communication on Twitter

Klimašauskaitė¹

2021

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‘Strategic communication is something we are very bad at’, tells us a tweet from the Geneva Peace Week. One of the examples of strategic communication is public engagement content on Twitter. Empirical studies, however, never looked at public engagement content about peace on Twitter. In turn, I use grounded theory approaches to explore and map peace communication among seven research organizations and events in the West. My data set comprises a total of 9,874 tweets in English. Thematic coding with Atlas.ti results in 4,274 codes that are grouped into 63 distinct themes. I find sustainable peace as the main type of peace in data. Yet, the themes that presumably contribute to it – health, accountability, trust, and transparency, among others – are marginal. While gender is among the dominant themes, it emerges disconnected, with a lack of meaningful integration of it in other topics such as health or participation. A pattern emerges of the level of view that is mainly positioned on the global, with the local, community, family left at the margins.

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“…Despite the increasing awareness of the impact of structural forces on health, violent political conflict is largely overlooked in the scholarship on the topic, in medical providers' structural competency training (see below), and, more broadly, in public health, bioethics, and health promotion. Abuelaish et al assert that although conflict always affects health, public health and health promotion experts have often failed to recognize the interrelations between health and peace [ 24 ]. This misrecognition likely stems from the dominance of the norm of neutrality, as well as from the focus on the US context in the existing literature on the structural determinants of health.…”

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Neutrality, conflict, and structural determinants of health in a Jerusalem emergency department

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Int J Equity Health

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Background Medical neutrality is a normative arrangement that differentiates a zone of medical treatment disconnected from the field of politics. While medical neutrality aims to ensure impartial healthcare for all and to shield the healthcare personnel from political demands, it can also divert attention away from conflicts and their effects on health inequity. This article analyzes how healthcare professionals understand and negotiate the depoliticized space of the emergency department (ED) through their views on neutrality. It also examines how medical staff use depoliticized concepts of culture to account for differences in the health status of patients from disadvantaged groups. These questions are examined in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Methods Twenty-four in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare personnel in a Jerusalem hospital’s ED. All but one of the participants were Jewish. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis and Grounded Theory. Results The ED staff endorsed the perspective of medical neutrality as a nondiscriminatory approach to care. At the same time, some medical staff recognized the limits of medical neutrality in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and negotiated and challenged this concept. While participants identified unique health risks for Arab patients, they usually did not associate these risks with the effects of conflict and instead explained them in depoliticized terms of cultural and behavioral differences. Culture served as a non-controversial way of acknowledging and managing problems that have their roots in politics. Conclusions The normative demand for neutrality works to exclude discussion of the conflict from clinical spaces. The normative exclusion of politics is a vital but under-appreciated aspect of how political conflict operates as a structural determinant of health. Healthcare personnel, especially in the ED, should be trained in structural competency. This training may challenge the neglect of issues that need to be solved at the political level and enhance health equity, social justice, and solidarity.

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Interdependence between health and peace: a call for a new paradigm

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Peace and health: exploring the nexus in the Americas

Peace and health: exploring the nexus in the Americas

‘Peace is not just the suspension of war:’ peace communication on Twitter

Neutrality, conflict, and structural determinants of health in a Jerusalem emergency department

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