"Humanitarian Action: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993-94" - Chris Cushing
"The talk will look at the emergency humanitarian action carried out by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Bosnia during the war in the early 1990's. Key issues to be discussed will be: the goals and values of humanitarian action; key operational issues and challenges faced by humanitarian actors in violent armed conflicts and disasters; and the different roles of humanitarian, political and military actors."
Chris also has international policy and diplomatic experience in another 30+ conflicts and fragile states (i.e., Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Liberia, etc.). As such, he has led high-level diplomatic initiatives at the UN Security Council, UN General Assembly, IASC, G7–G8, EU Presidencies, OECD-DAC and Regional Organisations managing international crises, policy frameworks, political-military interventions, post-conflict strategies and donor coordination issues.
From 2004-13, Chris was the Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK and was Executive Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Security leading its consultancy, research and teaching work on violent conflict, social development and global governance. Chris directed the International Peace and Security Department of the UN Staff College, Turin, Italy where he managed international programmes on: (a) Peace Process Operations; (b) Human Security; and (c) Constructive Conflict Management and Global Governance as part of Kofi Annan’s ‘UN Reform’ strategy (1997-98).
Chris was one of the principal NGO negotiators for the Ottawa Landmines Treaty and was twice invited to Oslo to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony for his work with the ICBL (1997) and MSF (1999). He has also completed 750+ news media interviews in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Understanding the Bosnian Conflict
Other sites for further reading are:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/video/srebrenica-1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res#Early_1990s
https://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/tag/ratko-mladic/
http://recorder.sayforward.com/category/calais-tags/bosnian-genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsIqv0MVJCA#t=134
http://reliefweb.int/
ACAPS Needs Assessments http://www.acaps.org/en/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43272062/ns/world_news-europe/