Harbingers of Hope: Scientists and the Pursuit of World Peace

Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal; Willem A C M van de Put; Andreas Maercker; Stevan E Hobfoll; Velayudhan Mohan Kumar; Corrado Barbui; Arehally Marappa Mahalaksmi; Saravana Babu Chidambaram; Per Olof Lundmark; Tual Sawn Khai; Lukoye Atwoli; Vitalii Poberezhets; Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar; Derebe Madoro; Hernán Andrés Marín Agudelo; Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole; Luísa Teixeira-Santos; Paulo Pereira; Konda Mani Saravanan; Anton Vrdoljak; Miguel Meira E Cruz; Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian; Alvin Kuowei Tay; Janne Grønli; Marit Sijbrandij; Sudhakar Sivasubramaniam; Meera Narasimhan; Eta Ngole Mbong; Markus Jansson-Fröjmark; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Joop T V M de Jong; Mario H Braakman; Maurice Eisenbruch; Darío Acuña-Castroviejo; Koos van der Velden; Gregory M Brown; Markku Partinen; Alexander C McFarlane; Michael Berk

doi:10.32872/cpe.13197

Harbingers of Hope: Scientists and the Pursuit of World Peace

Clin Psychol Eur. 2023 Dec 22;5(4):e13197. doi: 10.32872/cpe.13197. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal^{1

2}, Willem A C M van de Put^{3

4}, Andreas Maercker⁵, Stevan E Hobfoll⁶, Velayudhan Mohan Kumar⁷, Corrado Barbui⁸, Arehally Marappa Mahalaksmi⁹, Saravana Babu Chidambaram⁹, Per Olof Lundmark^{10

11}, Tual Sawn Khai¹², Lukoye Atwoli¹³, Vitalii Poberezhets¹⁴, Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar¹⁵, Derebe Madoro¹⁶, Hernán Andrés Marín Agudelo¹⁷, Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole¹⁸, Luísa Teixeira-Santos^{19

20}, Paulo Pereira²¹, Konda Mani Saravanan²², Anton Vrdoljak²³, Miguel Meira E Cruz²⁴, Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian²⁵, Alvin Kuowei Tay²⁶, Janne Grønli²⁷, Marit Sijbrandij²⁸, Sudhakar Sivasubramaniam²⁹, Meera Narasimhan³⁰, Eta Ngole Mbong³¹, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark^{32

33}, Bjørn Bjorvatn^{34

35}, Joop T V M de Jong^{36

37}, Mario H Braakman³⁸, Maurice Eisenbruch³⁹, Darío Acuña-Castroviejo⁴⁰, Koos van der Velden⁴¹, Gregory M Brown⁴², Markku Partinen^{43

44}, Alexander C McFarlane⁴⁵, Michael Berk⁴⁶

Affiliations

¹ Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India.
² Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India.
³ Section of International Health Policy, Institute for Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA.
⁵ Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶ STAR Consultants - STress, Anxiety and Resilience, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁷ Kerala Chapter, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), New Delhi, India.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Section of Psychiatry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
⁹ Department of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, India.
¹⁰ Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lightning Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway.
¹¹ National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Care, Kongsberg, Norway.
¹² School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
¹³ Medical College East Africa, Brain and Mind Institute, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁴ Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine.
¹⁵ All India Institute of Training and Education (AIITE), New Delhi, India.
¹⁶ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia.
¹⁷ Behavioral Sleep Medicine Institute, Neumocenter, Research Department, Medellín, Colombia.
¹⁸ Baldaeus Theological College, Adukubar, Konesapuri, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
¹⁹ Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto, Portugal.
²⁰ Nursing School of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
²¹ Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
²² Department of Biotechnology, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Chennai, India.
²³ Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
²⁴ Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon School of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
²⁵ Division of Community Psychiatry, M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, India.
²⁶ Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
²⁷ Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²⁸ Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁹ Department of Biotechnology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
³⁰ Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
³¹ MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR), IMA World Health, Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
³² Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
³³ Stockholm Health Care Services, Region of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
³⁴ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³⁵ Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
³⁶ Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁷ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
³⁸ Transcultural Forensic Psychiatry, Tilburg Law School, Department of Criminal Law, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
³⁹ Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
⁴⁰ Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
⁴¹ Public Health, Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁴² Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁴³ Sleep Medicine, Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴⁴ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴⁵ Psychiatry, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁴⁶ The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), School of Medicine, Deakin University, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia.

Abstract

The ongoing wars in many regions-such as the conflict between Israel and Hamas-as well as the effects of war on communities, social services, and mental health are covered in this special editorial. This article emphasizes the need for international efforts to promote peace, offer humanitarian aid, and address the mental health challenges faced by individuals and communities affected by war and violence.

Keywords: COVID-19; Hamas; Israel; Middle East; Palestine; SDGs; UN; UNHCR; global health diplomacy; mental health; military invasion; peace; psychiatry; scientist; sustainable development goals; war.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.