The international activities of the Frantz Fanon Association consist of research, clinical intervention, training, and evaluation.
Since 2004, a research project on health, culture, art, and memory has been promoted. The project, carried out in collaboration with the Uni-Cuba Committee of the University of Turin and born out of a study conducted in a working-class neighborhood of Havana (known as Barrio Pogolotti), involves the collaboration of the University of Rome – Tor Vergata (Prof. Barbara Fiore) and Turin, and research missions in West Africa and the Afro-Caribbean cultural area (Cuba, Afro-descendant communities in Peru).
Since 2003, following contacts with the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) of the Faculté de Sciences Politiques (University of Paris), the Association has participated in a seminar held in New York under the auspices of the United Nations University (New York) and the Academy of Peace (Tokyo and New York). The seminar laid the groundwork for an international research project on mass crimes, war, and the anthropology of violence, involving international experts and operating in four different areas (Cambodia, Guatemala, the Balkans, and the Democratic Republic of Congo). The Frantz Fanon Association, in collaboration with the University of Turin and thanks to previous collaborative relationships with the Université du Grabain (Butembo), is responsible for research in Congo (Ituri and Kivu) on “War, violence, youth, and rehabilitation.” This research was funded by the Ford Foundation (New York). Among the activities promoted within this project was a training seminar on the de-traumatization of operators working with women victims of sexual violence, held by Roberto Beneduce in Goma in January 2005 at the SFVS (Synergie des Femmes pour les Victimes des Violences Sexuelles) association.
In 2001-2003, a rehabilitation project for victims of torture conducted in collaboration with the Italian Consortium of Solidarity (Rome) provided an opportunity to promote training activities in the fall of 2004 for psychologists and psychiatrists working in Ramallah (Occupied Territories) within the Torture Rehabilitation Center (TRC). The project has received new funding from the European Union and continues its activities in collaboration with the TRC and the ICS. In 1999, following collaboration with the Solidarietà Attiva association in Nichelino (Turin), already involved in cooperation programs in the Balkans, and an assessment mission conducted in December 1998 in Sarajevo and Zenica, a training course on community psychiatry and trauma clinics was held in Turin. The internship involved fifteen mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses) from Bosnia and Herzegovina.