ABSTRACT

"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrate issues of protection and care into all levels of planning, implementing and evaluating international intervention and action. The book identifies approaches that have proven useful and explores and suggests future directions.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |1 pages

I Lost my Life in Kuwait

chapter |1 pages

Why we have to be there

part I|42 pages

Peacekeepers

chapter |4 pages

The Evacuation Dilemma 1

chapter |2 pages

Heal—Don’t Forget

chapter |1 pages

Voices: Cambodia Diary

Mike Daly, US Army Military Observer, 1993 1

chapter |1 pages

That Feeling of Importance and Respect

Major Cheryl A. Netter field, MD, CCFP

part II|98 pages

UN Agencies and Programs

chapter |2 pages

Voices: Service Incurred

chapter |2 pages

Transformed by the Front Line

chapter 4|5 pages

Protecting the Protectors

chapter |2 pages

Voices: From Wyoming to Somalia

Dale Skoric, 28, Logistics Officer

chapter |1 pages

The Worst is the Loneliness

Hiro Matsumura, 51, WFP Country Director

chapter |2 pages

The Engulfing Sound and the Silence

Rhian Gastineau, 25, Food Aid Monitor

chapter |2 pages

We Cannot Allow Emotional Involvement

Erika MacLean, 47, Food Aid Monitor

chapter |1 pages

Lunch in Afghanistan

Georges Dubin, 41, Logistics Officer

chapter |1 pages

Perseverance Despite Adversity

chapter |2 pages

Voices: Reason for Hope

chapter |6 pages

Watching for the Signals

chapter |2 pages

Nothing Prepared me

chapter 10|5 pages

Stress and Mine Action

chapter |2 pages

Voice: An Eye Witness in Cambodia

Becky Jordan, Handicap International, Cambodia, 1996

chapter |2 pages

Voices: Separation from Families

chapter |2 pages

Voice: “You and Your People will Never Live here Again”

Bosnian Serb Municipal Councilors to Bosniak (Muslim) Returnees in Kozarac

part III|12 pages

Volunteers

chapter 13|7 pages

Eternal Vigilance

chapter |2 pages

Voices: Showing “Presence”

Benny Ben Otim (Uganda) UNV Protection Officer, UNHCR, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992/3

chapter |1 pages

Honored to be able to Defend

Manuel Amat (Peru) National UNV, Ombudsman’s Office, Arequipa Department, Peru, 1998

part IV|114 pages

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

chapter 15|9 pages

Precious Lives Honored To Serve

chapter |1 pages

Voice: Red Crayon

chapter 16|6 pages

The Dangers of Aid Work

chapter |2 pages

Voice: An Unspoken Agreement

chapter |2 pages

Voice: Like a Squeezed Lemon

chapter 18|6 pages

Goal—A Champion of the Poor

chapter |1 pages

Voices: A Prison Without Bars

C. O. Expatriate in Croatia (1994) and Bosnia (1996)

chapter |1 pages

Yet Another Evacuation

P.C. Psychologist in Guinea, from July 2000 to January 2001

chapter |1 pages

An Evacuation From Sierra Leone

I. A. R. Psychologist in Sierra Leone

chapter |3 pages

Voice: In God’s Lap

chapter |2 pages

My Introduction to Genocide

chapter |2 pages

We Must Do More

B.M. UN Human Rights Officer in Rwanda 1994

chapter |2 pages

Prosecuting War Crimes

chapter |2 pages

Survivors and Observers

part V|61 pages

Media

chapter 26|6 pages

We Have a Long Way to Go

chapter |2 pages

Apiece of our Soul

chapter |3 pages

A Dinner by Candlelight

chapter |2 pages

Photographer or Photojournalist?

chapter |3 pages

Full Circle

chapter |5 pages

The Chance to Cry

chapter |2 pages

All for the Story?

chapter |2 pages

Dying to Tell the Story

Kathy Eldon, author and filmmaker living in Los Angeles

chapter |2 pages

Working in the Third World

chapter |2 pages

Personal Armor

chapter 30|5 pages

The Forgotten Tribe

Newscoverage Unlimited: How an International Tragedy Spurred an Initiative to Help Newspeople Who Must Cover Grisly Stories

part VI|60 pages

Challenges and Remedies

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion

chapter |5 pages

Epilogue