[Discussion] CHILD RIGHTS AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF WAR - CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATIO N FOR PARTICIPATION”

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CHILD RIGHTS AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF WAR - CALL FOR PAPERS AND 
INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION”
Against the hopes of many, war, armed conflict and terrorism continue to 
occupy the world agenda. How do we define and classify war? Changing 
nature of warfare. What are the short, mid and long term effects of war 
on health infrastructures, livelihoods and lives of all people directly 
or indirectly involved? What different health concerns are faced at 
rural and urban environments and lives at country borders? The nature 
and the consequences of the changes in population demographics and in 
the daily lives of people of all ages. Life of child soldiers. Girls at 
times of war. Orphans. Treatment of children in war in world history. 
The Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a new vision of the 
child as an individual, a member of a family and community, with rights 
and responsibilities appropriate to his or her age and stage of 
development and incorporates civil and political, as well as economical, 
social and cultural rights of all children. The four guiding principles 
of the convention are nondiscrimination, best interest of the child, 
survival and development and participation. This session will review 
several articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child related to 
health with special emphasis on how war affected children. In addition, 
constraints and challenges of Child Rights will be analyzed, country 
implementations will be presented, and challenges and obstacles in 
implementation will be discussed. The session aims to propose applicable 
solutions. Social consequences of the collapse of buildings and other 
man-made accidents will also be examined. Please find updated 
information as regards the meeting at the IFSSH website 
http://www.ifssh.net.
The International Forum for Social Sciences and Health (IFSSH) welcomes 
applications from scholars, administrators, researchers, interested 
parties, international agencies, national and international research 
institutions and students for participation in the 2005 World Congress 
“HEALTH CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM”. The 2005 World Congress 
aims to realize a universal platform for reflections and forward-looking 
discussions in all important areas that fall under the health social 
science agenda. The world congress will host workshop sessions under the 
following themes: Accidents and disabilities; Adolescent health; 
Bioethics; Bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; Child health, 
development and child rights; Health consequences of war; Communicating 
health knowledge and behavior; Controversies of diet and nutrition; 
Developing economies, migration and emerging health issues; Ecohealth: 
climate change, health consequences of environmental deterioration and 
environmental policies; Ethnobotany and healing; Giving birth: new 
meanings, new statistics; Health and disease in world myths, scripts and 
literature; Health clubs and the new aesthetics of health; Health 
equity; Health social science research methodology; Health sector reform 
and health insurance; Health, medicine and colonialism; Human rights, 
HIV/AIDS and the new epidemics; Infectious diseases; Issues in rural 
health and disease; Life styles; Living with pain; Local traditions of 
healing and shamans; New challenges: smoking, addictions and eating 
disorders; Politics of pharmacueticals; Redefining old age; Reproductive 
health; Social history of health and disease; Social science education 
for health sciences; Sociology of dental health; Suicides and cross 
cultural issues in mental health; The economics of well being; The 
future of hospitals and patient care; The psychology of violence; 
Violence as a public health issue; and Social aspects and prevention of 
world blindness. Please find updated information as regards the meeting 
at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net. We invite you to join this 
interdisciplinary gathering of the experiences and perspectives of 
social scientists and health specialists for a crucial assessment of the 
human condition at the onset of the new millennium.
Prof. Dr. Akile Gürsoy
IFSSH Secretary General
Head, Department of Anthropology
Yeditepe University
Congress Correspondence:
2005 IFSSH Congress Center
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yeditepe University
Kay?s,dag(?,34755 Istanbul TÜRKI.YE
Tel: (+ 90) 216-578 07 27)
Fax: (+ 90) 216-578 08 99)
E-mail: ifssh.2005@yeditepe.edu.tr
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