Guiding the work of medica mondiale is an attitude of sensitivity towards both trauma and stress. This stress- and trauma-sensitive approach has a strengthening and relieving effect on the affected people and also the activists, specialist staff and working groups. For medica mondiale, trauma as a consequence of violence is not to be found exclusively in the area of (individual) psychology, but also very significantly at the level of society and politics. For this reason, even a multi-sectoral approach to supporting those affected by violence cannot stand alone: it must go hand in hand with measures to bring about change in general political conditions, societal structures and public awareness.