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Dr Danica Anderson

The Expert is a US-based international social scientist, researcher, and forensic counselor (criminal justice specialist) with a doctorate in clinical psychology. The Expert is a member of the UNESCO scientific and education CID council and of the International Criminal Court, a Psycho-social Victim Gender Expert for trauma with war crimes and war crimes survivors. She is a trauma clinician who has traveled the world bearing witness to―and researching how to heal transgenerational trauma and continues to make crisis responses while addressing the needs of immigrants and refugees during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and wars. Trauma response and social science and research fieldwork occurred in Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Sri Lanka, and many conflict-ridden regions and war regions.

The Expert's international trauma work occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa for the International Criminal Court and the United Nations World Food Program in Sudan. In former Yugoslavia, Bosnia Herzegovina, her study and clinically informed trauma for over two decades provided an archive of information on women's transgenerational trauma for war and war crimes survivors involving asylum and visas. The Expert worked with Mexico's National Human Rights, Mexico City, and the Mexican military women's sexual abuse, rape to murder. She trained US military personnel for the Department of Defense to certify sexual harassment and harassment advocates at US Military Bases and in South Korea. Her background includes being the Confederate Siletz Tribe Indian Child Welfare Director, providing courtesy services to over two hundred Canadian and US Native American Tribes.

With a cultural corpus and tribes indicating repercussions of transgenerational wounds racing across present and future generations, it demanded the inclusion of trauma impacts research and treatments saturated with cultural approaches inclusive of immigrants and refugees seeking asylum and immigration visa status. Over 80 million people, one percent of the globe's population, are refugees. And of the 80 million, most are women, and forty percent are children. The Balkan War listed seventy-five percent to eighty percent of women; in the Ukrainian War, over ninety percent were women. Dr. Anderson is working with the Bosnian women's war and war crimes survivors and Ukrainian women war survivors. These conflicts and trauma-inducing experiences, which include wars, domestic violence, nonstate torture, poverty, disease, and racial and sex discrimination, have an invisible status in the diverse international asylum and visa regulations.

Name
Dr Danica Anderson
Occupation
Social Scientist - Researcher-Trauma Expert
Expertise

Addiction/drugs/drug policy; Caste discrimination or persecution; Child soldiers; Climate-related issues; Coercive population control; Deportees/criminal deportees; Disability; Ethnic discrimination or persecution; Ex-combatant reintegration; Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC; Forced conscription; Forced marriage; Gang-related violence/non-state actors; Gender-based violence/domestic violence; Healthcare access/health systems capacity; HIV/AIDS; Journalist persecution; Land tenure disputes; LGBTQ; Likelihood of destitution or homelessness; Mental illness; Military/police service; Political persecution; Prison conditions; Religious discrimination or persecution; Government/state actor persecution; Risk of retaliation; Safe internal relocation; Sexual abuse/assault; Specialized medical services; Sufficiency of protection; Torture; Trafficking; Tribal discrimination or persecution; Violence against children/child abuse; Forensic Psychotherapy; War Crimes; War Trauma- Both Military & Civilian

Experience

Strong foundation in the area of Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Social Science, Sexual Abuse to Military Sexual Trauma, Humanitarian work with refugees, diaspora, women and child human rights, healing of trauma and food crisis to emergent crisis response. Criminal justice, international criminal court-rule of law-war crimes, forensic psychology, and research to investigations. Ranges from Sri Lanka where the persons certified and trained in my Clinical Informed Trauma contracted by UN was a part of the Black Shirts- Women only. One fled to France which required interaction and assistance for visa and diplomatic citations for seeking asylum. Clinical Trauma with the Balkan War crimes and war survivors in former Yugoslavia and in the United States- mostly St. Louis.  The latter required visas and request for asylum along with citing trauma and retributions had since US Visa was given to rape victims and their families during a specific period of years.  Worked with Somalian refugees and social work agency in Minnesota. International Criminal Court- Sub-Sahara Africa as Gender Victim Witness Expert handled trauma assessment for the court and for visa assessment to enter the Netherlands - Hague for testifying. Mexico City- worked with Mexico Human Rights for military woman sexually abused and harassment informed trauma that includes reports for asylum into the US. As Indian Child Welfare Director, Confederate Siletz Tribe, worked with the sovereignty of over 200 tribes, with US agencies and court and the International Criminal Court on issues of kidnapping (spouses taking the children off reservation across states), child welfare, etc.

Publications

  •         Anderson D. Federal PTSD Center, 2021, Text book section titled, “Women’s Trauma Narratives and Military Sexual Trauma, contact: Shemya Vaughn-drmyav@gmail.com Vaughn, S., McEntee, B., & della-Madre, L. s). Trauma-informed care: Addressing cultural sensitivity of the women veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder related to military sexual trauma in the Veterans Administration and civilian health care systems. Nova Publications, https://novapublishers.com/shop/trauma-informed-care-addressing-cultura…

•           Al Jazeera International Balkan Interview for Balkan Program Series July 2019, https://youtu.be/dLEq6e2sg5U

•           Anderson, D. (2016). Blood & Honey: The Secret Herstory of Women; South Slavic Women in a World of Modern Day Territorial Warfare. Olympia, WA: Kolo Press

•           Anderson, D. (2016). Maternal Fright & South Slavic Oral Memory Traditions; a Biosemiotics Epigenetic transgenerational & Somatic Psychobiology healing practices. Journal of Perinatal Studies, 30(3), 168-191. https://birthpsychology.com/journals/volume-30-issue-3  

•           Anderson, D. (2015). Blood & Honey: The Secret Herstory of Women; Balkan Women War Crimes and War Survivors. Olympia, WA: Kolo Press

•           Bahtijaragic, R. et al. (2015). Nonkilling Balkans. Honolulu, HI: Center for Global Nonkilling

•           Anderson, D. (2013). Blood & Honey Icons: Biosemiotics & Bioculinary: The Pedagogy of South Slavic Women War.  Olympia, WA: Kolo Press

Languages
Bosnia, Serbo-Croatian
Ethnic groups expertise
Slavic populations, African, Afghans, Sri Lankan
Religious groups expertise
Central Asia and Bosnia-Hercegovina Islam, Slavic Orthodox (Serbian, Russian), Catholic (Croatian, Sri Lanka, Africa)
Fees
[Private to EIN members]
Phone
[Private to EIN members]
Address
[Private to EIN members]