Current projects
Aside from our upcoming and previous events, we have other major ongoing projects and collaborations. More info on each project coming soon!
Global University Academy
Training of Trainers in Colombia
Training of Trainers in Cairo
Webinars for Ukrainian veterans and helpers
Previous projects
Research collaboration
We base our work on the Life and mental health in limbo conceptualization by Anjum, Aziz and Hamid. This is a framework to understand the psychological needs of populations affected by long-term loss of land, security, and basic social and physical resources due to war or catastrophes. It highlights the connections between the destinies and the interrelated difficulties of those who stay, those who are displaced, and those who return.
Anjum, G., Aziz, M., & Hamid, H. K. (2023). Life and mental health in limbo of the Ukraine war: How can helpers assist civilians, asylum seekers and refugees affected by the war? Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129299
Booklet and brochure for parents on "Psychosocial Support for Children During War"
This resource has been developed for parents and trusted caregivers in Gaza who are struggling to care for their children under the unbearable weight of war and trauma. It is written by Dr. Safwat Diab, himself from Gaza, and an expert on war-traumatised children, together with a team of highly respected colleagues: Nora Sveaass, Helen Christie, Beate Seibt, Katrin Glatz Brubakk, and Elisabeth Langdal (psychological professionals at UiO, Mental Health and Human Rights Info, and Foreningen for det Palestinske Samfunnet i Norge [The Association for the Palestinian Community in Norway]).
This resource is not theory, but rather a practical tool that is based on the lived experience of helpers in Gaza. It provides parents and caregivers with practical guidance on how to support their children through fear, nightmares, withdrawal, and anxiety, normal reactions to the inhuman reality they face. Most of all, it reminds parents and trusted caregivers that they themselves are their children’s most important source of security and hope.
It is available as a PDF booklet and a shorter brochure, in both Arabic and English.
Arabic booklet
English booklet
Arabic brochure
English brochure
Peer-to-peer groups and trainings
Students at Psychology students without borders were trained by Mental Health and Human Rights Info in a human-rights based approach to trauma and resilience. They then conducted online trainings with students of psychology at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. These trainings are continued in the Fall of 2023.
Palestinian aid workers in Cairo and Gaza were trained by Solidarity Hub members Reheimu Dilare and Sara Utheim Hanna, with the help of Eisha Mehtab, in MHHRI's Gender-Based Violence manual. This training was done online in February of 2025. For more information about this training and to see some reflections, see the Instagram or LinkedIn post.
We will be holding more of these trainings in the future!
2022-2023 Closed supervision groups
A separate initiative was closed supervision groups for psychologists/helpers in Ukraine. This initiative was based on a collaboration between the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and the Ukrainian universities. The idea was to set up supervision groups for Ukrainian psychologists and people working with refugees by building a collaboration between the department of psychology at the University of Oslo and Ukrainian universities and to see what the Ukrainian psychologists need, and how the PSI could best support them.
Groups were set up with one Norwegian psychologist and 5-6 people working in Ukraine, and these closed groups had approximately 3 supervision/ dialogue sessions per group. The language of the groups was either English (when all the people involved spoke English), or a translator was included so that the participants could speak Ukrainian. Based on the interest for such groups, these may be set up again.