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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

No Peace for Peacekeepers

The Torontoist reports that a new study from the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry has found a 10% rate of probable PTSD and a 29% rate of probable depression among Canadian peacekeepers. "Peacekeeping has become more dangerous since evolving from observer operations to peace-enforcing missions in the 1990s," the Torontoist reports.

A PDF of the study is available here.