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How do politics, violence, psychology, colonization intersect? - Dan David Prize winner

Decolonizing psychiatry is a movement and framework aimed at challenging and transforming the Western-centric approaches and assumptions that dominate the field of psychiatry.

|ByNERIA BARR
DR. ANA Antic. ‘I think it is very important to understand the relations between mental illness, violence and politics.’
Saheed Aderinto

Dan David Prize, World’s largest history prize announces 2023 winner

The nine winners of the 2023 Dan David Prize are international, from Kenya, Ireland, Denmark, Israel, Canada and the United States.

|ByNERIA BARR
Dan David Prize winner Dr. Efthymia Nikita

Dan David Prize winner sees our connectivity through time and space

Dr. Efthymia Nikita of Cyprus integrates human skeletal data with archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and historical evidence in order to form a more well-rounded view of the past.

|ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Dan David

Dan David Prize relaunches, now the world's largest history award

Starting in 2022, the Dan David Prize will award $3 million annually to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners who study humanity's past.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for 'defending science'

Fauci "has been widely praised for his courage in speaking truth to power in a highly charged political environment."

FEBRUARY 16, 2021
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI testifies during a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill last month.

14 Days: SACRED AWE

Ori Ansbacher, 19, was brutally murdered in Jerusalem’s Ein Yael forest on February 21, and was buried in her hometown of Tekoa the next day.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019
TIPH OUSTED

Dan David Prize announces award for climate change fighter

Christiana Figueres, winner of one-million dollar award, is a Costa Rican diplomat who was influential in forming the Paris Agreement of 2015 on climate change.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019
ByZACK EVANS
Christiana Figueres