Disaster Victimization:Understanding and Responding to the Impact and Needs of Disaster Victims

Edited by John P. J. Dussich and Kieran G. Mundy

2008, Tokyo: Seibundo Publishing Co., Ltd.
Price 1,500yen

Contents

Symposium

Keynote Speech

Peter Malanczuk, “Protecting Disaster Victims: Some Recent International Law and Policy Issues”

Panelists’Presentations

1. D. K. Srivastava, “Compensating Disaster Victims: Some Tort Law Perspectives”
2. C. Raj Kumar, “Human Rights and Governance Implications of Disasters: Law and Development Perspectives”
3. Karen McLaughlin, “Responding to Disaster Victims: Managing Victims Services in the Disaster Area”
4. Ronald S. Kiyuna, “Post-disaster Healing: Re-visiting Trauma Treatment in a Context of Learning”
5. Kuriake Kharismawan, “Therapeutic Strategies for Helping Disaster Victims”
6. Tadashi Nakasu, “Vicitms of Natural Disasters: The Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina-Rita”
7. Kazue Yajima, “Applying the Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Supporting the Earthquake Victims in Niigata”
8. K. Chockalingam, “Victimological Perspectives in Establishing a Disaster Management Network”
9. Gerd F. Kirchhoff, “How to Protect Child Victims and Society Against Child Beating and Recidivist Child Sex Offenders”
10. Kyoko Fujino, “The Current Situation of Child Abuse in Japan”
11. Irvin Waller, “Child Victims and Child Witnesses of Crime”

Workshop

K. Chockalingam, “Systematic Advocacy in the Aftermath of a Disaster”