Dear colleagues and dear friends,

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 5th International Conference of Psychotraumatology and Mediation (5ICPM – 2017) in Geneva.

Through an informal network of various organizations we are interested in learning from each other various examples of good clinical practice as well as policy practice. It is important that professional associations work closely with humanitarian organizations as well as governments and civil society. There is considerable evidence that the worldwide rates of stress anxiety and trauma related disorders are increasing. It is well known that natural and man-made disasters such as wars, terrorism, migration and asylum seeking affect children, families and communities that people leave behind as well as societies they move to…