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Abstract
Peace through Health (PtH) is an evolving academic discipline that explores how health interventions may contribute to peace in actual and potential war zones and situations of conflict. This article is an attempt to define the scope of PtH activities, to develop a framework for groups and individuals to conceptualise their role in peace work and to develop clearly definable goals for evaluation. The use of a new model of ‘Peace through Health’ work is explored. A demonstration of how this model could help guide actions of organisations working for peace in current and potential war zones is undertaken. In particular, the work of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and medical war prevention work in Iraq since 1990 is discussed. It is felt that such a model might be used to classify and better direct medical peace work to areas of expertise.
Acknowledgements
Amelie Baillargeon has been invaluable in editing and in the development of diagrams. Catherine MacAllister also helped with development of . Mary Wynne Ashford, Fiona Kouyoumdjian, and Mary Louise McAllister have each assisted with constructive comments and editing. Finally, I would like to express profound appreciation to Graeme MacQueen and Joanna Santa Barbara for pioneering the development of the Peace through Health framework, developing education in the discipline and personal support.
Notes
Neil Arya is a Canadian family physician. He is a Lecturer in Peace through Health in the Faculty of Humanities and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University and Adjunct Professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He was President of Physicians for Global Survival and Vice President of IPPNW from 2000 to 2002.