Working in the Killing Fields

Howard Ball is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of more than thirty books, including At Liberty to Die; Genocide; and Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution.

"Highly recommended for students of human rights politics and forensic sciences."-P. G. Conway, CHOICE “An excellent and accurate book that tells the story about the role of forensic scientists in the recovery and identification effort in the former Yugoslavia. It is well researched and thorough.”-Eric Bartelink, associate professor of physical anthropology and director of the California State University–Chico Human Identification Laboratory “Howard Ball’s erudite overview of the history behind [the Balkans] conflict and the responses of the forensic and psychosocial communities . . . are fascinating and in some ways diverse. . . . It behooves us all to look at the lessons and issues set out in works such as this and to try and slow down, and ultimately halt, what would seem to be the consequences of the worst of humankind.”-Margaret Cox, president of Inforce Foundation and a former professor at the Cranfield Forensic Centre, Cranfield University

• Acknowledgments    Introduction: On the Bank of the River Drina, May 10, 2003    Abbreviations    Chapter 1. The “Disappeared” in War and the Need to Find and Identify Them    Chapter 2. Balkan Nationalism, the Creation and the Collapse of Yugoslavia, and “Ethnic Cleansing”    Chapter 3. Finding, Exhuming, and Identifying the Human Remains in Bosnia    Chapter 4. The Forensic Scientists at Work in Bosnia’s “Killing Fields”    Chapter 5. The Stark Realities Confronting the Searchers and the Survivors in Bosnia    Notes    Bibliography    Index