Sharing the front line and the back hills: international protectors and providers : peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and the media in the midst of crisis

Foreword / Kofi A. Annan

Introduction / Yael Danieli and Youssef Mahmoud

Voice: Are You Still There? - Reply / Carlos Caseres

Voice: I Lost My Life in Kuwait / Kathleen Nader

Voice: Why We Have to Be There / Christiane Amanpour

Ch. 1. Peacekeepers and Peace-Builders Under Stress / Sue Downie

Voice: An Ambush in Somalia / Shirley N. Brownell

Voice: The Evacuation Dilemma / Ian Martin

Voice: Heal - Don't Forget / Mark Quarterman

Ch. 2. Studies on Military Peacekeepers / Jos M. P. Weerts, Wendy White and Amy B. Adler / [et al.]

Voice: Cambodia Diary / Mike Daly

Voice: The Feeling of Importance and Respect / Cheryl A. Netterfield

Voice: A Lifetime of Learning / Nils Arne Kastberg

Ch. 3. Caring for Staff in UNHCR / Soren Jessen-Petersen

Voice: Service Incurred / Martin Barber

Voice: Transformed by the Front Line / Yasmine Sherif

Ch. 4. Protecting the Protectors / Catherine A. Bertini

Voice: From Wyoming to Somalia / Dale Skoric

Voice: The Worst is the Loneliness / Hiro Matsumura

Voice: The Engulfing Sound and the Silence / Rhian Gastineau

Voice: We Cannot Allow Emotional Involvement / Erika MacLean

Voice: Lunch in Afghanistan / Georges Dubin

Ch. 5. Risk and Protection for UNICEF Field Staff / Nils Arne Kastberg

Ch. 6. Health Workers on the Front Line / Xavier Leus and Hilary Bower

Ch. 7. Women on the Front Lines: UNIFEM's Work to Promote Women, Peace, and Security / Noeleen Heyzer

Voice: Sex, Violence, Love, Loss, Hope: Men and Women in the Camps Speak to Us / Janet Albrecht

Ch. 8. Supporting Staff During Crisis and on the Path to Development / Omar Bakhet and Marie Dimond

Voice: Healing is an Individual Process / Kathleen Cravero

Voice: What Aid Workers and Frogs Have in Common / Marie Dimond

Ch. 9. Managing Projects on the Ground / Reinhart Helmke

Voice: Humane Human Resources Management / Alicia Noeli Escursell

Voice: Perseverance Despite Adversity / Basil Comnas

Voice: Reason for Hope / Shashi Tharoor

Voice: These Decisions Haunt Me Still / Kathleen Cravero

Voice: Complicity with Torture: Managing Humanitarian Assistance Under Economic Sanctions, Haiti 1992-1994 / Elizabeth D. Gibbons

Voice: Watching for the Signals / Paul E. Ares

Voice: Nothing Prepared Me / Linda Champoux-Ares

Ch. 10. Stress and Mine Action / Martin Barber

Voice: An Eye Witness in Cambodia / Becky Jordan

Ch. 11. Handle With Care: A View from the Staff Counsellor's Office / Jean-Guy Morisset

Voice: Separation from Families / Kim Robinson

Voice: The Story of Somebody Who Went Out to Learn About Fear / Petra Miczaika

Ch. 12. United Nations Human Rights Field Officers / Ben Majekodunmi

Voice: "You and Your People Will Never Live Here Again" / Milburn Line

Ch. 13. Eternal Vigilance / Sharon Capeling-Alakija

Voice: Showing "Presence" / Benny Ben Otim

Voice: Honored to Be Able to Defend / Manual Amat

Ch. 14. Peace Corps Volunteer Safety Support System / Michael D. O'Neill and Elizabeth Kramer

Ch. 15. Precious Lives Honored to Serve / Kris Hurlburt

Voice: Red Crayon / Janet Shriberg

Ch. 16. Dangers of Aid Work / Barbara Smith

Voice: An Unspoken Agreement / Gerald Martone

Ch. 17. Psychosocial Care for Humanitarian Aid Workers: The Medecins Sans Frontieres Holland Experience / Piet van Gelder and Reinoud van den Berkhof

Voice: Like a Squeezed Lemon / Marc Vachon

Ch. 18. GOAL - A Champion of the Poor / Andrew Spearman

Ch. 19. Supporting and Equipping National and International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Workers / Alastair Ager, Erik Flapper and Tineke van Pietersom / [et al.]

Voice: Being Knowledgeable Can Help Enormously / Maria Blacque-Belair

Ch. 20. Sustaining the Humanitarian Work Force: Increasing Violence, Increasing Vulnerability / Shiela M. Platt, Milagros Bacareza and Sonia Margallo

Ch. 21. Limiting the Risks and the Vulnerability of Humanitarian Aid Workers / Clementine Olivier

Voice: A Prison Without Bars / C. O.

Voice: Yet Another Evacuation / P. C.

Voice: An Evacuation from Sierra Leone / I. A. R.

Ch. 22. Preventing Broken Hearts, Healing Broken Minds / John Fawcett

Voice: In God's Lap / M. R.

Ch. 23. Local Community Capacity: The Source of Renewal / Ian D. Campbell and Alison Rader

Voice: A Family Blood Feud in Kosovo / Stevan Weine

Ch. 24. Mental Health of Humanitarian Aid Workers in Complex Emergencies / Barbara Lopes Cardozo and Peter Salama

Ch. 25. Surviving with the Dead: Forensic Investigations in the Service of Human Rights / William D. Haglund and Susannah M. Sirkin

Voice: A Voice for Victims / M. Cherif Bassiouni

Voice: My Introduction to Genocide / Ben Kiernan

Voice: We Must Do More / B. M.

Voice: Prosecuting War Crimes / Minna Schrag

Voice: Impartial Observer Drawn into Sleepless Moral Conflict / Mariana Goetz

Voice: Survivors and Observers / Priscilla B. Hayner

Ch. 26. We Have a Long Way to Go / Chris Cramer

Voice: Courage Isn't Enough: Learning from Other People's Mistakes / John Owen

Voice: Don't Go if You Can't Deal with the Consequences / Gary Knight

Voice: How I Learned to Live with Trauma / Josh Friedman

Voice: A Piece of Our Soul / Elizabeth Neuffer

Voice: A Dinner by Candlelight / Bill Berkeley

Voice: Photographer or Photojournalist? / John Isaac

Voice: Full Circle / Ron Haviv

Voice: The Chance to Cry / Frank Smyth

Voice: All for the Story? / Paddi Clay

Voice: Dying to Tell the Story / Kathy Eldon

Voice: Working in the Third World / Beryl Goldberg

Voice: Who Cares for Those Who Care? / Barbara Bertoncin

Voice: Personal Armor / Christine Spolar

Voice: War Children: The Highly Personal "Spin" / Sherry Ricchiardi

Ch. 27. Journalists, War and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / Anthony Feinstein and John Owen

Ch. 28. Bridge between Sorrow and Knowledge: Journalists and Traumatic Stress / Elana Newman

Ch. 29. Centurion: Shielding Journalists and Aid Workers / Bo Mills, Paul Rees and Gordon J. Turnbull

Ch. 30. Forgotten Tribe / Robert M. Frank

Ch. 31. Issues of Security in the United Nations System / Diana Russler and Shirley N. Brownell

Ch. 32. Psychological Debriefing / Beverley Raphael and Robert J. Ursano

Ch. 33. Humanitarianism at Risk: From Threatened Aid Workers to Self-Deceiving Organizations / Mark Walkup

Ch. 34. Training for Humanitarian Assistance / Kevin M. Cahill

Ch. 35. Attempt at a Legal Remedy: The Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel / M.-Christiane Bourloyannis-Vrailas

Ch. 36. Call for an Accountability Campaign / Arthur C. Helton

Voice: Some Principles of Self Healing / Yael Danieli

Conclusion / Yael Danieli

Epilogue / Kenzo Oshima.