ABSTRACT
In June 2004, I took part in a seminar arranged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on the use of interpreters in international court proceedings and in criminal investigations in the field. There, I gave a talk on the organization of interpreting services for immigrants and how the training of those interpreters is organized in Sweden. My talk must have had an impact on the organizers of the conference because only a few weeks later I received a telephone call from the Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), which had obtained my name from the ICC as someone with the kind of knowledge and experience in recruiting, testing, and training interpreters that would be helpful to the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team (ADT) project CIJ was about to undertake. I accepted, and two weeks later I was on my way to Chad.
