Surviving the Baghdad bombing: UN officer Elpida Rouka on trauma, healing, and peace
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Elpida Rouka, a senior UN political affairs officer and survivor of the 2003 Baghdad Canal Hotel bombing (the deadliest attack in UN history), shares her harrowing experience of trauma, grief, and healing. She reflects on the stigma and survivor's guilt that often prevent humanitarian workers from seeking help for post-traumatic stress, and explains how the exact wording of the UN Charter preamble has given her strength to heal and continue serving in peace efforts.
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· 3 pulledFirst you feel the shake, and the light, and then the blast, the sound comes. I blacked out between exiting the building, but when I was out, there was just a scene of a massacre.
The only thing I recall after that was being thrown a phone and told: 'Call your parents, now.'
We always focus on 'We the Peoples'. But the verb the preamble of the UN Charter uses is determined … It's not thinking, we may try, right? It's not aspire
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