In 2015, our editorial team began work, with the aim to build a body of knowledge on the ways in which public health and mental health policies and practices can lower recurrence and prevent the onset of mass atrocity crimes. In particular, we hoped to reorient and bridge cross-disciplinary conversations and to begin a discussion with a common language and purpose at the theoretical and practical levels. In June 2019, we convened eighteen academics and practitioners engaged in work at the intersections of these disciplines across various contexts and at various intervention points along the continuum of harms that can be defined as atrocity crimes. Represented among these scholars and practitioners were psychologists, sociologists, social psychologists, epidemiologists, public health practitioners, political scientists, legal scholars, human rights practitioners, anthropologists, historians, peace studies scholars, and philosophers. The immediate outcome of these conversations is the publication of two multidisciplinary anthologies: The first, an edited book titled, Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and second a special journal issue by the same name, with the Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal (Volume 23, Issue 1, June 2021 - available online and open source). The authors of these 19 collected papers dive deeply into the public health and mental health rights dilemmas that emerge from prevention efforts related to identity-based violence and mass atrocity crimes—including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. And they represent a diversity of context, epistemology, and methodologies. Together we examine the ways we can adapt rights and health frameworks, methods, research, tools, and practice toward a more sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary understanding and application of atrocity prevention. In their totality, the papers demonstrate the state of these current fields and the intersecting themes within human rights, public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention and, importantly, future potential directions for next collaborative steps. EDITORS
Caitlin O. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State University in St Paul, MN. As program evaluator for the Aushwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocity (AIPG), she helps local and international organizations more effectively deliver on their missions to promote human rights and social justice. Caitlin served for eight years on the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (APA Div. 48). Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Amy E. Meade is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and currently holds a joint faculty appointment as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as Assistant Psychologist at McLean Hospital. Arlan F. Fuller is the Chief Operating Officer of Conflict Dynamics International. He worked for 12 years at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, serving as its executive director for seven years.
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