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Figure 2: Model of the psychosocial impact of armed conflict on women
Caste Discrimination
Individual coping
1. Console
Mental
disorders,
2. themselves
Share with
Gender Discrimination
problems of the
close friends
dimaag
3. Tried to keep
busy in work
4. Stay silent
Harmful traditional practices
Psychological Distress
Family supports
Problems in the heart (man):
1. Family member advice
1. Anxiety (chinta)
2. Don't do anything
2. Fear (dar)
3. Took much care than
3. Sleeplessness (nanidaune)
Lack of income sources
before
4. Loneliness (eklopan)
5. Sadness (niraas, dukha)
Community supports
6. Feeling ‘suffocated‘ (ukusmukus) 1. Neighbors advice
Lack of family support
2. Mother/Women Group
3. Saving and
Affected Psychosocial Well-being and
Credit Groups
Positive Mental Health
4. Don't do anything
Suggestions from Participants
Empower women socially,
• By developing strong women networks
• By ensuring women’s equal participation in and
equal access to services
• By raising awareness of men, regarding women’s
rights and the plight of women
• By providing basic education to women
• By supporting women to re-marry if they lost their
husband due to the armed conflict
Empower women economically,
• By providing advanced levels of skillbased
training programs
• By promoting saving and credit groups
Disturbed family relations
Problems in social relations
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Empowered women, politically,
• By implementing rules and laws to ensure the
equal participation of women in political
activities
• By supporting the establishment of political sta
bility in the country
• By raising awareness on the political rights of
women
• Increased human rights violations
• Threatened livelihood
• Destruction of property
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Psychosocial Issues of
Women affected by conflict