Publications
Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls. Global Education Monitoring Report. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2018.
Cities Welcoming Refugees & Migrants: Enhancing effective urban governance in an age of migration. Paris, France: UNESCO, 2016.
Framework for reopening schools. UNICEF, 2020.
Global Peace Index 2019: Measuring peace in a complex world. Sydney, Australia: Institute for Economics & Peace, 2019.
Social Protection and Welfare Systems: Implications for Early Childhood Development." Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy. Ed. P. R. Britto al. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 260-274.
Evaluation of an early childhood parenting programme in rural Bangladesh." J Health Popul Nutr. 25.1 (2007): 3-13.
"Very Early Childhood Development." Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2). Eds. R. E. Black, et al. Washington (DC) 2016.
Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Penn University Press, 2015.
Medical humanitarianism: anthropologists speak out on policy and practice." Med Anthropol Q. 29.1 (2015): 1-23.
"Empathy an invaluable natural resource for peace. Rome, Italy: Foundation Child, 2019.
Linking peacebuilding and child development: A basic framework." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. The MIT Press, 2014. 323-338.
Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel. State University of New York Press, 1999.
Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue. Eds. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, and Renáta Katalin Nelson. De Gruyter, 2021.
Forgiveness in The Arab and Islamic Contexts." Journal of Religious Ethics. 41.3 (2013): 474-494.
"Hippocampal dysfunction effects on context memory: possible etiology for posttraumatic stress disorder." Neuropharmacology. 62.2 (2012): 674-85.
"The effect of intranasal oxytocin treatment on conditioned fear extinction and recall in a healthy human sample." Psychopharmacology (Berl.). 229.1 (2013): 199-208.
"Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuli." Prog. Brain Res.. 156 (2006): 363-78.
"The social brain: neural basis of social knowledge." Annu Rev Psychol. 60 (2009): 693-716.
"On the absence of a ‘Socio-emotional Enablement’ discourse component in international socio-economic development thought." Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 18.4 (2004): 424-436.
"Learning for Peace: Lessons learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Context Programme. Eds. Nikola Balvin, and Daniel J. Christie. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Life skills and financial education for peace. Aflatoun International, 2019.
The Role of the Health Sector in Advancing Nurturing Care: AKDN Syria’s Implementation of Care for Child Development. Aga Khan Foundation, 2021.
Aiming higher for maternal and child nutrition in South Asia." Maternal & Child Nutrition. 14 (2018): e12739.
"Essay: Healing through art therapy in disaster settings." The Lancet. 368 (2006): S28-S29.
"An ethological approach to personality development." American Psychologist. 46.4 (1991): 333-341.
"Infant Development and Mother-Infant Interaction among Ganda and American Families." Culture and Infancy: Variations in the Human Experience. Ed. P. H. Leiderm al. New York: Academic Press, 1977. 119-149.
Patterns of Attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1978.
Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love. Blatimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1967.
Evaluation of the Better Parenting Programme in Jordan." Early Child Dev Care. 181.5 (2011): 587-598.
"Tomorrow's players under occupation: an analysis of the association of political violent with psychological functioning and domestic violence, among Palestinian youth." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 77.3 (2007): 427-33.
"Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil." Developmental Science (2021).
"Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition." Oxford Economic Papers. 58.3 (2006): 450-474.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition." Lancet Glob Health. 2 (2014): e500.
"The Refugee Crisis and the Rights of Children: Perspectives on Community-Based Resettlement Programs." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2018 (2018): 91-98.
"Mental health and psychosocial support in crisis and conflict: report of the Mental Health Working Group." Prehosp Disaster Med. 24 Suppl 2 (2009): s217-27.
"A Study of a Violence Prevention Program in Prekindergarten Classrooms." Children & Schools. 31.3 (2009): 177-187.
"Enabling the implementation of the 2030 agenda through SDG 16+: Anchoring peace, justice and inclusion. New York City, New York: United Nations, 2019.
The Nature of Prejudice. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1958.
Effects of early intervention and the moderating effects of brain activity on institutionalized children's social skills at age 8." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 109 Suppl 2 (2012): 17228-31.
"We are here: An integrated approach to youth-inclusive peace processes. Finland: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2019.
Global policy paper “We Are Here: An integrated approach to youth-inclusive peace processes”. Youth, Peace and Security, 2019.
Parent education by maternity nurses and prevention of abusive head trauma." Pediatrics. 128.5 (2011): e1164-72.
"Acute effects of intranasal oxytocin on subjective and behavioral responses to social rejection." Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 18.4 (2010): 316-21.
" The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools: Teaching Responsibility, Creating Caring Climates. Good Books, 2005.
Life in groups: the roles of oxytocin in mammalian sociality." Front Behav Neurosci. 7 (2013): 185.
"Heredity, environment, and the question how?" Psychol Rev. 65.4 (1958): 197-208.
"The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood. A convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology." Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 256.3 (2006): 174-86.
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