Organiser/Chair
Nigel Ellway, Head of Secretariat & Policy Director, All Party Parliamentary Group on Explosive Threats, Director REVIVE Campaign
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Many explosive weapons are designed to maim rather than kill. Plus attacking cultural and historical sites (and thus sites of national & religious identity) with explosive weapons makes them in fact a psychological weapon.
Awareness, preparedness and understanding of psychological risk in military vs civilian actors;
The perceptions and reactions to the threat to cultural and historic sites by explosive weapons, and the impact on mental health;
Self-identity and mental resilience. How this can be shattered by a blast injury and how in some circumstances it might be strengthened.
The workshop will take the form of a panel discussion led by:
- Nigel Ellway Director REVIVE Campaign,
- Charlotte Copeland CEO SafeHaven ltd.
- Shehan Hettiaratchy, lead surgeon and major trauma director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS
- Maj Peter Norton GC, former ammunition technical officer injured by an IED in Iraq in 2005.