Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Now online are several powerful stories PBS has been airing on the Democratic Republic of Congo, putting a human face on statistics impossible to fathom: a decade of civil war that has killed some five million people, left two hundred thousand women raped, and displaced a quarter of a million Congolese in the last three months alone.

The first story is Pascal Bumbari's. A 25-year-old father of two, Bumbari and his family were displaced twice within a year, his wife Vestine giving birth on their tent's mud floor in a makeshift camp housing over 20,000 other displaced people. After the story aired, they were forced to flee again, and Pascal's family can't be located. More »

In next month's Men's Journal, Greg Veis profiles Chris Ware: CNN correspondent, six years into Iraq. Ware shows Veis harrowing video of a raid, and argues for the importance of getting footage that puts viewers close to the awful action of combat. More »

"I can no longer go down that lonely farm road. I still see the bloodied, headless body of the motor cyclist jump out at me from behind the tree that killed him. I was first on the scene before the ambulance or police. I didn't know what else to do other than take in the details for my local paper. I continued to have nightmares for a long, long time about this." More »

Six journalism grad students working with ABC’s 20/20 spent the summer investigating the stories of soldiers who abuse drugs. In their TV report, soldiers speak to the students of going into war drug-free, but turning to cocaine, amphetamines, and prescription drugs to deal with their traumatic experiences. More »

"Let's hold hands to show we are united." Though the image above was taken by photojournalist Donna DeCesare, the idea behind it came from this spontaneous thought from one of the image's "protagonists" (a term DeCesare prefers to "subject"). Nancy and her six younger siblings were displaced by three days of torture and killings by paramilitaries that left more than 40 villagers dead in El Salado, Colombia in the year 2000. Though it would be dangerous for them to reveal their faces or full names, through DeCesare's unique collaborative approach, they were able to choose, creatively and expressively, how they would be seen. More »