Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Gaza: Where There is No Escape

By Gavin Rees

If there is one constant in the political history of Gaza over the 61 years since the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, it is that whenever it is thought that the situation can’t get any worse, it usually does. The Israeli-Hamas war that ended three months ago left many hundreds dead, thousands of others robbed of their livlihoods and the political divisions within Palestinian society just as deeply fissured as before. More »

In Gaza: ‘We Have Had Enough’

By Dr. Edward Rynearson

Dr. Rynearson. a longtime consultant to the Dart Center, has traveled frequently to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, working with mental health professionals there. He gave us this report after his most recent visit.

The Images and Memories of War

A BBC Interview with Don McCullin

By Don McCullin

For 30 years, Don McCullin's CV as a photographer read like a chronology of global conflict from the Vietnam War in the 1960s to Beirut in the 1980s. Now, McCullin is famous also for photographing the beautiful landscapes around his Somerset home in England. In an interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country, McCullin says that there's a big change from war, destruction and death on a grand scale to the quiet beauty of Somerset.