"It's a power, not a disease": Syrian Youth Respond to Human Devastation Syndrome Tory Brykalski Diana Rayes ethnography Syrian children Syrian refugees Lebanon mental health Human Devastation Syndrome While it is well acknowledged that the effects of war and exile are devastating for Syrian youth, there has been less focus on how they interpret their experience of war and displacement. Integrating anthropological and global health perspectives, we invite two Syrian youth, Karim and Khadijah, to speak to larger theoretical questions about humanitarianism. We describe the creation of a new diagnostic term, “Human Devastation Syndrome” (HDS) by the Syrian American Medical Society. Used describe the effects of war and displacement on Syrian youth, HDS provides a lens through which Karim and Khadija introduce their own theories of devastation. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2018 2018-11-13 2018-11-14 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-229-78037 eng 2714728-9 11 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/7803/7756 10.17192/meta.2018.11.7803 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/229/7803 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0