Documentary Screening, Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience

The documentary Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience, made by award-winning filmmaker Ron Bourke, showcases the study conducted by the research team leading this Program at Yale University, in collaboration with humanitarian actors from Mercy Corps, and local academics in Jordan. 

It won the best Documentary award at the 2020 SCI-ON Film Festival; the Best Short Documentary at the 2020 RAW SCIENCE Film Festival; and the Best Short Documentary at the 2020 AFMX Festival. It was also Finalist at the USA Film Festival, the AFIN INTERNATIONAL Film Festival, and the Rome PRISMA Fold Festival. Other 2020 screenings will include the Canberra Mental Health Film Festival and the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

To generate a discussion on scientific engagement in humanitarian settings, the documentary was screened in September 2020 by program officers of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.

To mark World Refugee Day 2020, the film was offered in a free on-line global screening which includedlive discussions of the documentary; recordings can be viewed on the filmmaker’swebsite.