The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a National Mental 
Health Programmer, which in turn has established the Mental Health and 
Substance Use Strategy for Lebanon 2015–2020. In parallel, research 
involving refugees has been conducted since the onset of the Syrian crisis. 
The findings point to an increase in mental health disorders in the Syrian 
refugee population, which now numbers more than 1 million.
Following the conflicts taking place in the Syrian Arab Republic since 
2011, the affected population, whether displaced or not, is in need of 
psychosocial support interventions that take into consideration the 
contextual specificities. This chapter gives an overview of the wounds that 
the Syrian community is suffering from, as identified and analysed by 21 of 
the master's students (18 of which are Syrian and 4 are Lebanese), who 
took part in the two editions of the Psychosocial Support and Dialogue 
Professional Executive Master's course that the International Organization 
for Migration (IOM) and the Lebanese University organized in 2014 and 
2015 in Beirut. The papers describe as well the bridges that the students 
were aspiring to rebuild or strengthen throughout their studies or 
interventions based on the main psychosocial and dialogue concepts and 
approaches that they acquired during the master's course.