Children and War

Board of Overseers

Florence Baingana MD

is a psychiatrist at the MakerereuniversitySchool of Public Health. She has for many years worked with the World Bank in WashingtonDC seconded by the World Federation for Mental Health. She was with the Health Nutrition and Population Anchor of the Bank since April 2000. Before this she worked as National Mental Health Co-ordinator of Uganda, where she helped establish the Mental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health.

Richard Bryant PhD

is a Scientia Professor in the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, and is Director of the Traumatic Stress Unit, Westmead Hospital, Australia. His research has focused on acute psychological responses to trauma. He has identified some of the key biological and cognitive markers of risk for PTSD, developed screening tools for identifying people who are high risk for PTSD, conducted the major early interventions trials for PTSD, and studied neural networks of PTSD. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed journal articles, and co-authored the leading text on acute stress disorder. He serves as a consultant to many international civilian and military agencies on managing trauma reactions.

Cole Dodge

Cole Dodge has spent a lifetime in public administration, beginning in post conflict in Nigeria in 1970 and including work in Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Sri Lanka.  He has contributed to the early understandings of children in conflict and currently works to develop capacities in universities in Bangladesh and East Africa. He has worked for the following organisations: Quaker Peace and Service, Oxfam, Unicef, UNEP, BRAC, BRAC University, Makerere University and East African Community.

Nigel Fisher

became President & CEO of UNICEF Canada on November 1, 2005. Previously he has been the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), a position to which he was appointed in August 2003, by the U.N. Secretary-General. He has also been Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Regional Director for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in South Asia. Mr. Fisher worked with UNICEF for over 20 years in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as at UNICEF headquarters in New York.

Maia Gedevanishvili

is a professional psychologist and is the Chief Specialist at the Child’s Rights Center of the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia. Gedevanishvili has worked with psychopathology for 18 years, 8 of which was spent at the Republic Psychiatric Clinic and at the Division of Clinical Psychology (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Georgia).

Terry Jones

is a film director and writer, a founder member of the Monty Python team and a highly regarded Chaucer scholar. His book Chaucer’s Knight touches on most of the themes of the effects of war on civilians. His most recent work of fiction, The Lady and the Squire is about a young boy embroiled in the horrors of the Hundred Years War and has been short-listed for the Whitbread Prize. He has long supported measures to reduce armed conflict.

Rosalie Kwong

is the head of the Corporate Clinical Psychology Services at Hong Kong Hospital Authority. She is a senior clinical psychologist and certified traumatologist, who has extensive experience in disaster management and crisis intervention. Other than providing professional intervention to health care workers in crisis (e.g. workplace violence, sudden death or serious injury of co-workers), she also organises related training courses for different organizations locally and internationally.

Sølvi Rolland Murphy

Sølvi Rolland Murphy owns and runs the theatre and cabaret stage Ole Bull Scene in Bergen, and has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. Sølvi has together with employees at Ole Bull Scene contributed to three charity concerts for the Children and War Foundation. She also holds positions with a range of Boards and committees in Bergen.

Thomas H. Ollendick

is University Distinguished Professor in Clinical Psychology and Director of the ChildStudyCenter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. He is the author of numerous research publications, book chapters, and books. The recipient of several national and international awards, his clinical and research interests address the assessment, treatment, and prevention of various childhood problems including the phobic, anxiety, and mood disorders.

Lisbet Palme

is a child psychologist by background and she chaired the Swedish UNICEF committee from 1987 until 2000. She has been a member of the United Nations committee for follow-up of the Child Convention, chairperson of the UNICEF board, New York, and a member of the expert committee set up by the organization for African unity to look into the genocide in Rwanda.

Stephen Regel

is Principal Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist/Co-director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust & Special Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, NottinghamUniversity. Since 2002, he has been visiting therapist/consultant at the Family Trauma Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has over 25 years experience working with trauma.