Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills : International Protectors and Providers - Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis

"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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Voices: Are You Still There?—Reply I Lost My Life in Kuwait Why We Have to Be There PART I: PEACEKEEPERS CHAPTER 1: Peacekeepers and Peace-Builders Under Stress Voices: An Ambush in Somalia The Evacuation Dilemma Heal—Don’t Forget CHAPTER 2: Studies on Military Peacekeepers Voices: Cambodia Diary That Feeling of Importance and Respect PART II: UN AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS Voice: A Lifetime of Learning CHAPTER 3: Caring for Staff in UNHCR Voices: Service Incurred Transformed by the Front Line CHAPTER 4: Protecting the Protectors Voices: From Wyoming to Somalia The Worst is the Loneliness The Engulfing Sound and the Silence We Cannot Allow Emotional Involvement Lunch in Afghanistan CHAPTER 5: Risk and Protection for UNICEF Field Staff CHAPTER 6: Health Workers on the Front Line CHAPTER 7: Women on the Front Lines: UNIFEM’s Work to Promote Women, Peace, and Security Voice: Sex, Violence, Love, Loss, Hope: Men and Women in the Camps Speak to Us CHAPTER 8: Supporting Staff During Crisis and on the Path to Development Voices: Healing is an Individual Process What Aid Workers and Frogs Have in Common CHAPTER 9: Managing Projects on the Ground Voices: Humane Human Resources Management Perseverance Despite Adversity Voices: The Manager’s Perspective Reason for Hope These Decisions Haunt Me Still Complicity with Torture: Managing Humanitarian Assistance Under Economic Sanctions, Haiti 1992-1994 Watching for the Signals Nothing Prepared Me CHAPTER 10: Stress and Mine Action Voice: An Eye Witness in Cambodia CHAPTER 11: Handle With Care: A View from the Staff Counsellor’s Office Voices: Separation from Families The Story of Somebody Who Went Out to Learn About Fear CHAPTER 12: United Nations Human Rights Field Officers Voice: “You and Your People Will Never Live Here Again,” PART III: VOLUNTEERS CHAPTER 13: Eternal Vigilance Voices: Showing “Presence,” Honored to Be Able to Defend CHAPTER 14: The Peace Corps Volunteer Safety Support System PART IV: NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs) CHAPTER 15: Precious Lives Honored to Serve Voice: Red Crayon CHAPTER 16: The Dangers of Aid Work Voice: An Unspoken Agreement CHAPTER 17: Psychosocial Care for Humanitarian Aid Workers: The Médecins Sans Frontières Holland Experience Voice: Like a Squeezed Lemon CHAPTER 18: GOAL—A Champion of the Poor CHAPTER 19: Supporting and Equipping National and International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations and Their Workers Voice: Being Knowledgeable Can Help Enormously CHAPTER 20: Sustaining the Humanitarian Work Force: Increasing Violence, Increasing Vulnerability CHAPTER 21: Limiting the Risks and the Vulnerability of Humanitarian Aid Workers Voices: A Prison Without Bars Yet Another Evacuation An Evacuation from Sierra Leone CHAPTER 22: Preventing Broken Hearts, Healing Broken Minds Voice: In God’s Lap CHAPTER 23: Local Community Capacity: The Source of Renewal Voice: A Family Blood Feud in Kosovo CHAPTER 24: Mental Health of Humanitarian Aid Workers in Complex Emergencies IN THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE CHAPTER 25: Surviving with the Dead: Forensic Investigations in the Service of Human Rights Voices: A Voice for Victims My Introduction to Genocide We Must Do More Prosecuting War Crimes Impartial Observer Drawn into Sleepless Moral Conflict Survivors and Observers PART V: MEDIA CHAPTER 26: We Have a Long Way to Go Voices: Courage Isn’t Enough: Learning from Other People’s Mistakes Don’t Go if You Can’t Deal with the Consequences How I Learned to Live with Trauma A Piece of Our Soul A Dinner by Candlelight Photographer or Photojournalist? Full Circle The Chance to Cry All for the Story? Dying to Tell the Story Working in the Third World Who Cares for Those Who Care? Personal Armor War Children: The Highly Personal “Spin,” CHAPTER 27: Journalists, War and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder CHAPTER 28: The Bridge between Sorrow and Knowledge: Journalists and Traumatic Stress CHAPTER 29: Centurion: Shielding Journalists and Aid Workers CHAPTER 30: The Forgotten Tribe PART VI. CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES CHAPTER 31: Issues of Security in the United Nations System CHAPTER 32: Psychological Debriefing CHAPTER 33: Humanitarianism at Risk: From Threatened Aid Workers to Self-Deceiving Organizations CHAPTER 34: Training for Humanitarian Assistance CHAPTER 35: An Attempt at a Legal Remedy: The Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel CHAPTER 36: A Call for an Accountability Campaign Voice: Some Principles of Self Healing CONCLUSION EPILOGUE ABOUT THE EDITOR CONTRIBUTORS INDEX Points a crisis facing international institutions and media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. This book tells the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrate issues of protection and care into various levels of planning, implementing and evaluating intervention and action.