Khazen

Developmental Psychology

Aspects of Traumatic Effects Following the

1975 Lebanese Civil War on Christians in Lebanon    

and their Transmission Across Generations

Pierre Khazen 15/01/07

This paper is looking to use the Attachment theory to review intergenerational transmission of the 1975 Lebanese civil war experiences on the Christians of Lebanon and concentrate on survivors of the war and their children born after the war, in 1990. The Attachment theory will try to interpret influences of this war on its survivors and their offspring and concentrate on the long-term influences of the war; it permits the integration of attachment, separation and loss. Insecure-ambivalent-attachment may enlighten on preoccupation with matters of attachment and separation in off springs and survivors of the war. This article concentrates on coping of the war survivors and their offspring and the painful influences of traumatic war experiences and loss of attachment figures; it believes that consequences of the Lebanese civil war on its survivors may vary when using specific methods to investigate influences of the war on its survivors but if using a multi-methodological strategy to investigate, the results may be more accurate and decrease possible difference or contrast between them. When methods of investigation show results, the attachment theory will be used to interpret them and by this unify them so possible problem of this difference is compromised. The assumption is that when each investigation with regard to the issue uses a different method, it may be inevitable that the results are different

Associated Press Writer  SIDON, Lebanon – Islamic militants on Thursday fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Lebanese troops as they deployed outside …

BEIRUT (Reuters) JAN 25 - The death toll in clashes between government loyalists and opposition followers at a Beirut University on Thursday rose to four, an opposition-run television station reported. NBN said two of the dead were students loyal to the opposition, which includes the Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah and Amal.

They said at least 15 Arab University students were hurt in the clashes that spilled over to a nearby street. Cars and tires were set ablaze in the area.The opposition, which includes the Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement, launched nationwide protests on Tuesday which shut down much of Lebanon and sparked violence in which three people were killed and 176 wounded.The opposition want veto power in government and early parliamentary elections to topple the cabinet of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. 

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Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, EU and other international donors pledged more than 7.6 billion dollars in aid to Lebanon to support the government. The pledges were made Thursday during a one-day international donors' conference held in Paris. In his opening speech, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora thanked the participants from some 40 countries for their support, and appealed to foreign donors for further financial support, which he said was vital for Lebanon

Khazen History

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