Stevan Weine

Guest Author

Stevan Weine, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine, where he also is Director of Global Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health. For 25 years, he has been conducting research both with refugees and migrants in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and violence prevention. He leads an active, externally funded research program that has been supported by multiple federal (NIH, NIJ, DHS), state, university, and foundation grants, from 1998 to the present, all with collaboration from community partners.

Weine is author of When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999); Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Northwestern, 2006); and Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (Fordham University Press, 2023). He is also on LinkedIn.

Stevan Weine

Articles by this author:

Public-Safety Reform and Preventing Targeted Violence: Two Sides of the Same Public-Health Coin

Extended Detention Compounds Trauma for Thousands of Child Victims of Terrorism in Syria Camps

To Prevent Domestic Terrorism, the US Needs Community Reporting That Protects Civil Liberties

Repatriating ISIS Family Members: A North Macedonia Model?

Rehabilitating and Reintegrating Child Returnees from ISIS

COVID-19 Could Ravage Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Rehabilitating the Islamic State’s Women and Children Returnees in Kazakhstan

To Avoid Future “El Pasos” and “Daytons,” It’s Time to Invest in Prevention

Repatriating ISIS Families: An Opportunity to Show that “Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism” Can Work

Giving CVE a Chance

Trump/Bannon Plan to Counter “Violent Islamic Extremism”—A Gift to White Supremacists, and Islamic Terrorists Too