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CHAPTER 6Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderMore informationEdited transcripts of the London conference Emotions, Trauma and GoodJournalism can be found at the Dart Centre website www.darteurope.org, underArticles and Info, http://www.coldasfire.com/dartcentre/conftrans1.htmResearch by Anthony Feinstein and his team is published as A HazardousProfession: War, Journalists and Psychopathology in the American Journal ofPsychiatry 159:1570-1575, September 2002.The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers andscholars to promote understanding of international humanitarian law, to preventbreaches of the law and to encourage punishment of those who commit them.http://www.crimesofwar.org/A report of Conflicts and War Crimes: Challenges for Coverage (WashingtonMay 2000) can be found at http://www.crimesofwar.org/seminars/seminars.htmlThe psychological effects session was on day 2.The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, currently based at the Universityof Washington School of Communications, in Seattle, USA, is a global network ofjournalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improvingmedia coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. It looks at the impact of thereporting process on those who view and read it and on news professionals.http://www.dartcenter.org/Dart Centre Europe has its own website at http://www.darteurope.org/The seminar in Opatija, Croatia, Aftermath of Covering Conflict: Dealing withthe Emotional Impact, held in January 2002 is described by Sherry Ricchiardiat http://www.dartcenter.org/newscenters/seeurope/The Freedom Forum has closed its international offices and discontinuedinternational programmes. http://www.freedomforum.org/The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) was set up to promote conflict preventionand conflict resolution through diversity reporting. The London basedorganisation facilitates the Reporting Diversity Network of media centres incentral and south eastern Europe and in Africa. It works to achieve fair, accurate,sympathetic and in-depth reporting primarily through education, training and cooperationwith practising journalists, academics, media owners and decisionmakers,and media, human rights and minority organisations.http://www.media-diversity.org/96