Location: Iraq

Description: For five years, our program has made deep inroads with the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD) to promote a trauma-informed investigative process. Through training, education, and mentorship, we have supported UNITAD’s development into a trauma-informed practice that not only incorporates the promising approaches to working with traumatized witnesses, but also coordinated and built capacity for previously unavailable trauma mental health treatment in Iraq. This resulted in the publication of both a field guide and reference manual on trauma-informed investigations. Furthermore, this collective work established a new paradigm in trauma-informed investigations. 

Link: https://humanrights.stanford.edu/sites/humanrights/files/media/file/2104429-trauma-informed_investigations_field_guide_web_0_0.pdf