ABSTRACT
Peter Bouckaert, based in Madagascar, was the Emergencies Director at Human Rights Watch for thirteen years, and was tasked with coordinating the agency’s response to wars and humanitarian disasters. He has done work on site in Lebanon, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Macedonia, Indonesia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and many other crisis areas worldwide. Bouckaert has testified on war crimes before the US Senate, the Council of Europe, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. This chapter presents an interview of Bouckaert in which he discusses his entry into the photography field. In the interview, Bouckaert also describes some of the photographs taken by him covering some incidents in Central African Republic, Tanzania, and Myanmar.
