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Competing claims of operational effectiveness and human rights / Harrison, Deborah; Laliberté, Lucie

Harrison, Deborah	Journal Article
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2008.

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This article explores the tension between military objectives and the "democracy value" cherished by Western civilian societies, using the situations of injured military members and the living conditions of civilian spouses; in particular, the responses of the Canadian Forces to members' posttraumatic stress disorder, and to spouses who are victims of domestic violence. The authors show how these responses currently privilege military objectives over the democracy value to an extent that is incompatible with the human rights of civilians or military members. They conclude by discussing how military leadership training could be modified to produce an altered balance between the two value systems

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Human Rights ; Military Leadership ; Domestic Violence ; Canadian Forces

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Impact of shared location on the mental health of military and / Harrison, Deborah; Robson, Karen; Albanese, Patrizia; Sanders, Chris

Sanders, Chris	Journal Article
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2011.

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Preliminary results of our survey of 1066 adolescent members of a Canadian Forces (CF) community, comparing the mental health and well-being of CF and civilian youth in a secondary school adjacent to an army base, yielded surprising results. The data were collected in 2008 with an instrument that replicated parts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). Our findings suggested that there are few statistically significant differences between CF and civilian youth on mental health and well-being measures. On the other hand, both the CF and civilian youth scored lower on crucial health and well-being measures than their peers in the national NLSCY sample. This research note attempts to explain these complementary findings, using data from follow-up semi-structured interviews we conducted in 2009/10 with 60 of the CF adolescents. It also considers the possibility of a ''spillover effect'' of military life stressors on civilian youth.

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Canadian Forces ; Mental Health ; Spillover Effect ; Youth/Adolescents ; Well - being

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