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A Hundred Thousand Orphans: My Experience with the Children of the Eritrean War
A Hundred Thousand Orphans vividly documents the war and orphanage environments experienced by thousands of traumatized Eritrean children and the long-term consequences of their unique education.
Book Details
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: Apr 28th, 2023
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.45in - 0.64lb
- EAN: 9781433199844
- Categories: • Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare• European - German• General
About the Author
Peter H. Wolff, MD (Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine), a renowned research psychiatrist and humanitarian, retired from positions as Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Associate in Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Medical Center. He was a founding member of the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children's Hospital, on which he served for 35 years. Wolff is the recipient of many awards, an Honorary Degree, and author of approximately 150 publications.
Praise for this book
"This vivid and absorbing book is a work of ethical depth - a triumph of scholarship, thought and empathy. Peter H. Wolff, who has dedicated his illustrious professional life to the study of how children grow and develop, has now written a spellbinding account of his work with the abandoned victims of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war, the Eritrean orphans. While this is a provocative and fascinating book on the forces of idealism and rebellion that shaped the war, his first-hand account does nothing less than revolutionize our notions about how children can recover from trauma and grow up to become self-reliant, productive adults. Moreover, he brings the art of the storyteller through this narrative - big themes mingle with personal tragedy, which makes it not only intellectually challenging and emotionally exhilarating but compulsively readable. His ability to draw out arresting examples and comparisons and to combine psychological, political, demographic, environmental and cultural analysis is impressive, so that no one reading this volume can fail to learn a great deal. This vivid and riveting book is a celebration of the human imagination and the human heart." -Kevin Nugent, Founder and Director of the Brazelton Institute, Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Professor Emeritus, the University of Massachusetts Lecturer, Harvard Medical School "This is a thoroughly absorbing personal memoir by a wise and thoughtful psychiatrist who had the unique experience of observing the effects of war on a nation's children. Peter Wolff rovides an insightful and vivid account of the effect of early traumatic experience on childhood development and the strength of the Eritrean people. This description of the events in Eritrea from 1985 to 2015 is full of wisdom, insight, compassion, and humility by a truly outstanding observer." - George F. Michel, Ph.D, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina Greensboro "A Hundred Thousand Orphans provides a fascinating inside look at the impact a creative, empowering approach to education can have on severely traumatized children, most of whom were orphaned or abandoned during Eritrea's long war for independence from Ethiopia. This makes the speed with which the postwar regime squandered these breakthroughs in favor of tight social controls and traditional rote learning and memorization all the more disheartening. Nevertheless, Wolff's rigorous documentation of the successful initial experiment offers valuable lessons for anyone dealing with the effects of trauma on children and the healing power of affection and mutual respect, together with a stark warning against taking such achievements for granted. Wolff also argues that the vision behind this pioneering experiment will live on through the survivors to see another day in the sun. I, for one, was convinced." - Dan Connell, Author of Against All Odds (1997), Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners (2005), and the Historical Dictionary of Eritrea (2019). I am writing this letter to endorse the works of Peter Wolff. To write a letter of recommendation of an accomplished author, scientist and educator like Peter Wolff is not an easy task. If, nevertheless, he has honored me by the invitation to write this letter, and if I gladly accepted, it is because this letter of support offers an occasion that permits clarifying the nature of a common experience we shared during the darkest moment of Eritrean history. I met the author decades ago in the Sahel, the most inaccessible northern region of Eritrea, where the devastation of the liberation war of attrition that lingered for a quarter of a century combined with biblical drought devastated the population. The Eritrean liberation fighters built underground hospitals and clinics and provided basic health services to the nomadic pastoralists, displaced populations and orphanages. In these testing hours a professor from Boston (Harvard) unexpecte