This is the third episode in a podcast series framed by contributions featured in the International Review of the Red Cross published by ICRC focusing on Mental health and armed conflict. This episode takes off from a contribution entitled Strengthening resilience for people affected by violence in international armed conflict: A community-based MHPSS intervention in Armenia co-authored by Sofia Gimenez Molinero, Mher Naghdalyan and Mariam Aghababyan with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Armida Zakharyan from the Armenian Red Cross Society.
The contribution published in the International Review is based on a study of a community-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programme implemented jointly by the Armenian Red Cross Society (ARCS) and the ICRC. The intervention targets border communities and people from Karabakh affected by the 2020 Karabakh conflict and subsequent escalations. At the time of writing, the ICRC and ARCS have reached more than 6,000 individuals in more than 100 communities through the programme.
The study aims to explore how this comprehensive, community-based MHPSS intervention contributes to strengthening the resilience of individuals in the aftermath of the conflict and within a context of recurrent violence.
We invited two of the authors Sofia Gimenez Molinero, former Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Delegate in Armenia and Clinical Psychologist, and Mher Naghdalyan Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programme Responsible to discuss the findings.
