/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4387/all en /newsroom/channels/news/amid-war-and-disease-world-happiness-report-shows-bright-spot-338506 <p>In this troubled time of war and pandemic, the <a href="https://worldhappiness.report/">World Happiness Report 2022</a> shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Professor <a href="/newsroom/christopher-barrington-leigh">Christopher Barrington-Leigh</a>, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.</p> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:45:45 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 286520 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-iran-us-crisis-304040 <p>Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East. Soleimani, a general who headed the overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards, was regarded as the second most powerful figure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8">Reuters</a>)</p> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:10:38 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196203 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/when-children-see-war-better-peace-267588 <p>For most people, the end of a war offers relief, hope, and an end to violence. This may not be the case for children born of wartime rape, however, who often endure continued brutality in the post-war period.</p> <p>That finding emerges from a new study of children born to mothers who were abducted, held captive, and sexually violated by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group led by Joseph Kony during the civil war in northern Uganda from 1986 to 2007.</p> Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:02:16 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 26862 at /newsroom /newsroom/t-v-paul Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23610 at /newsroom /newsroom/jon-unruh Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 Anonymous 22856 at /newsroom