Joining the Kosovo Liberation Army: a continuist, process-based analysis - Duclos N.
Drawing on semi-directed interviews with ex-combatants from the Kosovo Liberation Army (U ÇK) and the archives of the international organization responsible for disarming and demobilizing the combatants, this article examines the process by which individua... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
Empowering the peer group to prevent school bullying in Kosovo: effectiveness of a short and ultra-short version of the visc social competence program - Ar ënliu A, Strohmeier D, Konjufca J, Yanagida T, Burger C.
Evidence-based anti-bullying programs are predominantly implemented in high-income countries, although there is a clear need for bullying prevention also in low- and middle-income countries. The present study reports the effectiveness of a short and ultra-... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Inside the Dangerous Mission to Understand What Makes Extremists Tick —and How to Change Their Minds
On a cool winter’s day in early 2014, the American academic Nafees Hamid was invited for tea at the second-story at the Barcelona apartment of a young Moroccan man. It started well enough; they sat down at the kitchen table, chatting amiably in French while two acquaintances of the host sat nearby in the living room. Halfway through the conversation, though, things took a turn. “He started saying things like, ‘Why should we trust any Westerner?’” Hamid recalls. “‘Why would we not kill every one of them? Why should I even trust you—you are an American—sitting here? Why s...
Source: TIME: Science - September 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Emily Feldman and Malia Politzer Tags: Uncategorized extremism feature Londontime Source Type: news
Call for Urgent Action by 275 World Leaders on Global Education Emergency In Face of Covid19
Credit: UNICEF Mali / DickoBy External SourceNEW YORK, Aug 18 2020 (IPS) We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With over 1 billion children still out of school because of the lockdown, there is now a real and present danger that the public health crisis will create a COVID generation who lose out on schooling and whose opportunities are permanently damaged. While the more fortunate have had access to alternatives, the world’s poorest children have been locked out of learning, denied internet access, and with the loss of free school meals – once a lifelin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Economy & Trade Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Demographical and epidemiological aspects of firearms injuries and the medical care of emergency in emergency clinic - Lenjani B, Krasniqi B, Rashiti P, Bunjaku I, Arslani N, Krasniqi E, Makolli S, Haliti F, Lenjani D, Ljuhar K, Zalihi ć A, Gavranović A, Demi A.
Firearms injuries are a major public health problem in Kosovo. Injuries from firearms injuries are those caused by any firearm (cartridge, Cannonball) and from the special properties war, mine explosive grenades, and other subjects. Epidemiology of the use... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Cross-cultural differences in driver aggression, aberrant, and positive driver behaviors - Ersan, Üzümcüoğlu Y, Azık D, Fındık G, Kaçan B, Solmazer G, Özkan T, Lajunen T, Öz B, Pashkevich A, Pashkevich M, Danelli-Mylona V, Georgogianni D, Berisha Krasniqi E, Krasniqi M, Makris E, Shubenkova K, Xheladini G.
The present study investigated differences in driver aggression for self and others within countries and cultural differences between driver aggression, aberrant, and positive driver behaviors across five countries (Estonia, Greece, Kosovo, Russia, and Tur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Gender-based violence spikes amid pandemic, shelters need support
KOSOVO – As theCOVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, women and girls are more vulnerable to abuse than ever. In Kosovo, the Ministry of Justice has seen a 17 per cent increase in reported cases of gender-based violence. Urban areas appear to be hit much harder, with one city recording a 100 per cent increase in violence. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund Source Type: news
Local ownership and international oversight: police reform in post-Yugoslav states - Skendaj E, Babunski K, Milivojevic Z, Byty çi S.
This article compares the results of police reform in three post-Yugoslav states that vary in terms of local ownership. Using survey, focus group, and interview data gathered in Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia, we find that the public perceives the police fo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
A Gender Lens on COVID-19
This article was originally published on March 25, 2020 by the Center for Global Development. The original post can be found here. (Source: IntraHealth International)
Source: IntraHealth International - March 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: COVID-19 Gender Equality Nursing & Midwifery 2020 Midwives Nurses Source Type: news
Cross-cultural differences in pedestrian behaviors in relation to values: a comparison of five countries - Solmazer G, Az ık D, Fındık G, Üzümcüoğlu Y, Ersan Ö, Kaçan B, Özkan T, Lajunen T, Öz B, Pashkevich A, Pashkevich M, Danelli-Mylona V, Georgogianni D, Berisha Krasniqi E, Krasniqi M, Makris E, Shubenkova K, Xheladini G.
This study compared pedestrian behaviors in five countries (Estonia, Greece, Kosovo, Russia, and Turkey) and investigated the relationships between these behaviors and values in each country. The study participants were 131 pedestrians for Estonia, 249 for... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Challenges in the analysis of forensic pathology data relating to homicides in Kosovo from 2006-2015 - van Wyngaarden SM, Bakaj F, Speers SJ.
The ability to conduct accurate retrospective homicide comparative research is reliant on the publishing of robust studies that assess the specifics of homicides in a standardised manner. To address these matters at the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM)... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 31, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
EU funds help Kosovo fight unhealthy air pollution
The European Union is investing more than 80 million euros ($89 million) to improve air quality in Kosovo (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Coexistence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment among adolescents in Kosovo - Kelmendi K, Duraku ZH, Jemini-Gashi L.
This study explores the coexistence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment and its association with sociode... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Researchers Discover What Became of a Lost Continent, Now Hidden Under the Adriatic Sea
Researchers with Utrecht University in the Netherlands have uncovered what became of a lost continent that broke off from Africa and wedged itself under Europe, creating mountain ranges that span across 30 different countries from Spain to Iran.
“What we have studied is the very complex history of the geology of the Mediterranean region,” Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen, the lead researcher on the project, tells TIME. Researchers had already known for decades that a continent created the mountain ranges of Europe and the Middle East. “What that continent might have looked like, however, was until n...
Source: TIME: Science - September 25, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Madeleine Carlisle Tags: Uncategorized adriatic sea europe geology onetime Science Source Type: news
Civil war and the formation of social trust in Kosovo: posttraumatic growth or war-related distress? - Kijewski S, Freitag M.
While a new, growing subset of the literature argues that armed conflict does not necessarily erode social cohesion in the postwar era, we challenge this perspective and examine how civil war experiences shape social trust in Kosovo after the war from 1998... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
