International Rescue Committee

About: International Rescue Committee is a nonprofit organization based out in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 332 authors who have published 358 publications receiving 9126 citations. The organization is also known as: IRC.

Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research

Abstract: “Only middle-class academics could blithely assume that all the world is a text,” writes one of performance studies' leading figures. Conquergood argues for a hybrid discipline that celebrates experience and commingles the analytic and the artistic.

Avoiding disaster: diversification and risk management among East African herders

Abstract: This article addresses processes of livelihood diversification among pastoralists in the rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The objectives of the article are threefold: (1) to suggest a theoretical framework for addressing income diversification among pastoralists with reference to current literature and databases; (2) to present a case study on pastoral income diversification based on preliminary field research in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia; and (3) to summarize current understandings of pastoral diversification while pointing to additional empirical research needs. By showing how comparative analyses in the region have been constrained by theoretical and data deficiencies, the article explores ways in which income diversification differs by what are termed conditional, opportunity, and local response variables. Climate, distance to market towns, gender, wealth, and education are attributes covered by these variables and discussed in the article. The conceptualization and case study provide useful bases for conducting comparative research on pastoral diversification in East Africa specifically, and in sub-Saharan Africa generally.

Controlled trial of psychotherapy for Congolese survivors of sexual violence

Abstract: This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Controlled trial of psychotherapy for Congolese survivors of sexual violence, conducted during the time period April and July 2011 in Democratic Republic of Congo. The study observed that a total of 65 percent of participants in the therapy group and 52 percent of participants in the individual support group completed all three assessments. Mean scores for combined depression and anxiety improved in the individual-support group (2.2 at baseline, 1.7 at the end of treatment, and 1.5 at 6 months after treatment), but improvements were significantly greater in the therapy group. Approximately 70 percent of participants in the therapy group met our criteria for probable depression or anxiety at baseline, with 10 percent or less meeting the criteria at either follow up assessment. In the individual-support group, the proportions of participants who met the criteria were as follows: 83 percent at baseline, 53 percent at the end of treatment, and 42 percent at 6 months after treatment. Funding for the study derived from USAID Victims of Torture Fund and the World Bank.