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Here is a video of our presentation.

I had a look at the web statistics for our careers website for Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.mojakarijera.com.
Happy to see it is still being used, with over half the visitors coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina and most of the rest from Croatia. Average time spent on the site is around four minutes, with some staying much longer. From Sarajevo alone we get about ten visitors a day.

Here are some useful tools for measuring the impact of voluntary service on the volunteer, which I mentioned at the conference JUNE 9 – 10, 2008: INNOVATIONS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE VOLUNTEER SERVICE: Youth social inclusion for development in South Eastern Europe" and also at the CEV conference "Seminar on the promotion of local and international youth volunteering for peace building and conflict resolution in Europe", Sarajevo, 25-30 June 2008

INCA project: Intercultural Competence Assessment

- http://www.incaproject.org/tools.htm

An article not to miss if you are interested in how civil society organisations can be effective is: http://www.ssireview.org/images/articles/2007FA_feature_mcleod_grant_cru... "Creating High-Impact Nonprofits"

One thing (actually there are several, but here is one) we would really like to discuss with the OM community is the use of quantitative, likert-style questionnaires to measure progress on progress markers. We tried it for example in our Sida-funded and Sida-inspired recent evaluation of 6 civil society projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (which we have posted on the outcome mapping website) and found it very useful.
We want to present it briefly here, perhaps as a warmup to the forthcoming community discussion on progress markers, and also to get some feedback from you all at this early stage. If there is still interest, we would be happy to write up these ideas are bit more neatly. (By the way, if you are an old school "quantitative methods are the work of the devil" type of person, stop reading here. If like us you like to mix and match your methods, read on).

The way we did it was this:

I have just uploaded the full text of an article on post-traumatic growth by Rita Rosner and myself. This was a presentation held in Novi Sad last October. It discusses the results of an investigation I made into whether post-traumatic growth is seen as being significant in magnitude and life impact compared to the significance and magnitude of the traumatic events themselves. Here it is.

I just came back from a trip to Budapest to join in an expert meeting on Intercultural Learning. Here are a couple of pictures.

Dzenana and I just came back from a trip to Baku for the second General Assembly of NEPC (http://www.edupolicy.net). Apart from being really fascinated by Baku, a city of luxury and poverty battered by strong winds from the Caspian Sea, we had a lot of constructive discussions about planned and future research projects.
Here are a few pictures.

I was looking through the log of who is looking for what on this website and see that quite a lot of people are still looking for papers connected to the research I did with the LMU 1997-2002 so here they are again: http://www.promente.org/en/filebrowser/proMENTE_NGO/StevePowell/LMU_proj.... In particular you can find our book on the psychosocial consequences of war

Skupština Društva psihologa FBiH December 11, 2006
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I was invited by Anna Toropova, director of Ukrainian Center for testing technologies, as the international expert to present the results of the international research "Monitoring private tutoring" to 50 professionals involved in education. So, there were representatives for Ministry for education and others from all over the country. I presented international results as well as results from Bosnia and Hercegovina. This was actually a first time that private tutoring was a topic for the discussion. So, participants were really interested in presentations and asked a lot of questions.

Just wondering whether to make psih.org part of the proMENTE drupal site. Here I am using the drupal taxonomy_theme module to give this post a different theme.

Rita Rosner and I have a new article out in "Trauma und Gewalt": Überschätzt die ICD-10 die PTBS-Prävalenz?
Effects of Differing Diagnostic Criteria (ICD-10 vs. DSM-IV) on Estimated Rates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in War Zone Exposed Civilians

Here are some pictures from my visit to Transcarpathia - the Western part of the Ukraine with a Hungarian-speaking minority - to see how we can help out the Roma-Gadje Dialogue Through Service program.

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Best Wishes from the proMENTE team.

This essay was written as an introduction to our book on the psychosocial consequences of war: www.psih.org/2000e.pdf , and in Bosnian at www.psih.org/2000b.pdf .

The research in this book attempts to outline the “psychosocial consequences of war”. Moreover, most of the intervention programs mentioned in this research de-scribe themselves as “psychosocial”. In place of an introduction, therefore, this short essay attempts a critical outline of this notion of “psychosocial”.

The problem