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Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen

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Lecturer in History, Western Sydney University

Medical opinion soon came to regard symptoms of ‘shell shock’, as exhibited by the solider at bottom left, as psychological in origin. UK Government

April 14, 2015

From shell shock to PTSD: proof of war’s traumatic history

Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Western Sydney University

For contemporaries and later for historians, shell shock came to encapsulate all the horror of a new form of industrialised warfare.

Three Australian IS fighters may have been killed in the last month, including Mohammad Ali Baryalei. AAP Image/YouTube

November 23, 2014

Foreign fighters test the state’s monopoly on violence

Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Western Sydney University

Estimates are that there are more than 60 Australian citizens in the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) armies sweeping through Syria and Iraq. In a recent case, reported by the Sydney Morning Herald last…

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