ABSTRACT
Globally, more than 60 million people have been forcibly displaced by conflict from places such as Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma), Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and many others (UNHCR 2015). Conflict-induced displacement is a type of forced migration where people flee their homes from armed conflict, civil war, generalised violence or persecution on the grounds of nationality, race, religion, political opinion or social group, and where the state authorities are unable or unwilling to protect them (FMO 2012). Within these cruel, human-made disasters, displaced persons (hereafter, survivors) must leave everything they know for safety. Survivors are at risk of high degrees of traumatisation from often harrowing conditions encountered during displacement, including torture.
