Vocabularies of health and psychosocial support in the context of conflict, displacement, and diaspora

Conflict fundamentally affects people’s lives. Many lose homes and families, and must leave everything behind to survive.

Relocation is seldom a one-off event, with compounded and understudied impacts on individuals and communities, especially those who must move multiple times.

These are common experiences in the context of ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, where protracted conflict has forced internal and external mobilities.

We examine this as a public health issue, in terms of how best to articulate experiences and provide psychosocial support for conflict-induced migrants across the mobility spectrum, taking a transdisciplinary approach to research coalition building, conduct, and dissemination.

Given the limitations of current mental health models for these communities, we seek to develop relevant understanding for this and comparable contexts.