ABSTRACT
The two world wars of the twentieth century resulted in vast loss of life and massive social and economic disruption, and both the League of Nations post World War One and the United Nations post World War Two were established to work towards world order and social justice and to find ways to defuse and contain political tensions and address the social and economic forces implicated in them. The war waged by the Lord's Resistance Army, which operated in northern Uganda and South Sudan in the 1990s and is now active primarily in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and African Central Republic (ACR). The American Psychiatric Association introduced the term post-traumatic stress disorder in 1980. The psychiatric category of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as published in DSMIII (1980), was developed to diagnose the psychological experiences of people shocked by the trauma of war or other distressing events such as interpersonal violence or its witness, or a traumatic accident.
