title: Preface
abstract: Most of us in the Western world have little firsthand knowledge of war.Normally, we are not forced to face war, fight in a war, flee from war.We don't get tortured, see our homes and schools collapse, lose relatives and friends to war, spend months locked up in basements "because this is war."When we do get involved, as soldiers, journalists, or relief workers, we go to war or get sent to war -war does not come to us.Those of us who do not go and have not been to war are nevertheless aware of wa
journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks