Tufts University

Institute for Global Leadership

International Resilience Program

Publications

  • Almedom, A.M. (2011) Ngügï wa Thiong'o: Listening for Peace, and resilience in Africa, from Makerere 1962 to Asmara 2000.   in Wolfgang Dietrich, Josephina Echavarria,  Gustavo Alvarez, Daniela Ingruber, and Norbert Koppensteiner (Editors.) International Handbook of Peace Studies: A Cultural Perspective Palgrave Mcmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
  • Almedom, A.M., Brensinger, E. A., Adam, G.M. (2010) Resilience Discourse as a Counter Narrative to Vulnerability and Social Suffering. in Hannah Bradby and Gillian Lewando Hundt  (Eds.) Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering Ashgate.
  • Strauch, A.M. and Almedom, A.M. (2011) Traditional Resource Management and Water Quality in Rural Tanzania. Human Ecology (in press).

 

  • Muller, J. and Almedom, A.M. (2008) What is “Famine Food”? Distinguishing Between Traditional Vegetables and Special Foods for Times of Hunger/Scarcity (Boumba, Niger).  Human Ecology 36 (4): 599-607.


 

  • Müller, J.G., Assanou I. H., Dan Guimbo I., Almedom A. M. (2010) Evaluating Rapid Participatory Rural Appraisal as an Assessment of Ethnoecological Knowledge and Local Biodiversity Patterns. Conservation Biology 24:140-15
Special Issue on Resilience, Guest-edited by Astier Almedom.
  • Almedom, A. M. and Tumwine, J. K. (2008) Resilience to Disasters: A Paradigm Shift from Vulnerability to Strength    African Health Sciences 8(S): 1-4.
  • Almedom, A.M. (2008) Resilience research and policy/practice discourse in health, social, behavioral, and environmental sciences over the last ten years.  African Health Sciences 8(S): 5-13. (Review)
  • Glandon, D. M., Muller, J., Almedom, A.M. (2008) Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana: A Preliminary Study. African Health Sciences 8(S): 21-27. Reprinted in Social Policy Spring 2009 with permission from AHS.
  • Strauch A. M., Muller J., Almedom A. M. (2008) Exploring the Dynamics of social-ecological resilience in East and West Africa: Preliminary evidence from Tanzania and Niger. African Health Sciences 8(S): 28-35.

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  • Almedom, A.M.,Tesfamichael, B., Mohammed, Z.S., Mascie-Taylor, N., Muller, J., Alemu, Z. (2005) Prolonged displacement may compromise resilience in Eritrean mothers. African Health Sciences 5: 310-314.
  • Samuel, R. Almedom, A.M., Hagos, G., Mutungi, A. (2005) Promotion of handwashing as a measure of quality of care and prevention of hospital-acquired infections in Eritrea: the Keren study. African Health Sciences 5: 4-13.
 
  • Almedom, A.M., Tesfamichael, B., Mohammed, Z., Mascie-Taylor, N., Alemu,  Z.  (2007) Use of ‘Sense of Coherence (SOC)’ scale to measure resilience in Eritrea: Interrogating both the data and the scale. Journal of Biosocial Science 39: 91-107.

Special Issue on "Mental well-being in settings of 'complex emergency'", Guest-edited by Astier Almedom.

  • Almedom, A.M. and Summerfield, D. (2004) Mental Well-being in settings of ‘Complex Emergency’: An Overview Journal of Biosocial Science 36: 381-388. 
  • Almedom, A.M. (2004) Factors that mitigate war-induced anxiety and mental distress. Journal of Biosocial Science 36: 445-461.
  • Almedom, A.M. and Glandon, D. (2007) Resilience is not the absence of PTSD anymore than health is the absence of disease.  Journal of Loss and Trauma 12: 127-143.
  • Almedom, A. M., Tesfamichael, B., Mohammed, Z.S., Muller, J., Mascie-Taylor, N., Alemu, Z. (2005) “Hope” makes sense in Eritrean sense of coherence, but “loser” does not.  Journal of Loss and Trauma 10(5): 433-451.
  • Almedom, A.M. (2005) 'Resilience’, ‘hardiness’, ‘sense of coherence’, and ‘posttraumatic growth’: All paths leading to ‘light at the end of the tunnel’? Journal of Loss and Trauma 10(3): 253-265.
 


  • Almedom, A.M. (2005) Social capital and mental health: An interdisciplinary review of primary evidence. Social Science and Medicine 61: 943-964.
 
  • Levinson, F.J., Mehra, S., Levinson, D., Chauhan, A. K., Koppe, G., Bence, B., Almedom, A.M. (2004) Morinda Revisited: Changes in nutritional well-being and gender differences after 30 years of rapid economic growth in rural Punjab.  Food and Nutrition Bulletin 25: 221-227.
  • Almedom, A.M., Tesfamichael, B., Yacob, A., Teklehaimanot, K., Debretsion, Z., Beyene, T.,Kuhn, K., Alemu, Z. (2003) Examining maternal psychosocial well being in Eritrea: Application of participatory methods and tools of investigation and analysis in ‘complex emergency’ settings.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81: 360-366.
 
  • Almedom, A.M. (2003a) Participatory hygiene evaluation: a means to an end, or an end in itself?  Waterlines: International Journal of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation 22 (1): 2-4.
  • Almedom, A. (2003b) Crossfire: Debate with Bobby Lambert of RedR, UK (Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief) on the Motion: The ‘quick in quick out’ style humanitarian action may do more harm than good for the well-being of disaster-affected communities.” Waterlines: International Journal of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation 22 (2): 28-29.
 
  • Almedom, A. M. and Gosling, R.  (2003) The health of young asylum seekers and refugees in The United  Kingdom: Reflection from research.  In Allotey, P. (Ed.)  The Health of Refugees: Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement  Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

  

 

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