Healing under fire – medical peace work in the field

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Notes

1. The Rugiagli Initiative: https://sites.google.com/site/rugiagli/.

2. www.4change.eu.

3. www.medicalpeacework.org/.

4. This definition derives from the concept of positive peace as described by Galtung (1969). Just as health does not mean the absence of disease, peace is not the mere absence of war or violence.

5. The peace talks were initiated by the Yingluck Shinawatra government in February 2013: https://peacebuilding.asia/understanding-the-southern-thai-peace-talks/.

6. https://www.medicalpeacework.org/mpw-courses.html.

7. The administration of the Government of President Thein Sein and 8 ethnic armed groups signed the National Ceasefire Agreements: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/10/21/is-myanmars-nationwide-ceasefire-agreement-good-enough/.

8. Dr Tin Myo Win is considered a role model of tolerance and co-existence and he was nominated as the chief peace negotiator in charge of the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) by Aung San Suu Kyi when she became Chief Counsellor in 2016.

9. https://www.uossm.org/who_we_are.

10. https://syrianwomenforumforpeace.com/en/.

11. In 2016 approx numbers of refugees and internally displaced population (IDPs) in Kurdistan were: 250,000 refugees from Syria and 1,200,000 IDPs. KRG and UN data.

12. HMU is a public university based in Erbil. It is one of the few functioning universities and the only solely Medical University in Iraq.