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  • Table of Contents

    This page contains the proposed table of contents. To begin with, it is much larger than is feasible or reasonable. Let is begin by making it too big; then, we'll make it smaller. Note also that we should also include interviews where we can from people with experience in various situations. Part of our concept…

  • Slavery

    Scripts Shooting Script * (to come) Interviewing Script * (to come) Possible Contributers Victoria Fontan Article (to come)

  • Proposal

    Abstract Summary Schedule List of Articles See the [[Table of Contents]] page. Contributers See the [[contributers]] page. Budget See the [[budget]] page.

  • Preface

    Sometimes the pictures we do not shoot are the one's we think of most. These are not the images we "missed," when the Moment passed us by or we ran out of film. Rather, there are pictures we'd have taken if we simply had known to take them. In wars and conflict zones, we're often…

  • Police

    Scripts Shooting Script * ??? Interviewing Script * ??? Possible Contributers Anneke Osse Article (see ''Understanding Police,'' by Anneke Osse)

  • Main Page

    Welcome to ''The Evidence of War'' ''The Evidence of War'' is the collaborative development wiki system for the creation of the guide to understanding scenes of war and disaster. The book is conceived as a practical companion to ''Crimes of War.'' ''The Evidence of War'' will be a book, a guide to scenes of war…

  • Interviewing

    Based on a conversation with John Ralston: Adapting one's interviewing style for evidence collection. I think the idea is to help elicit specific answers of use for evidence collection, and to help a lay person ask questions useful for evidence. There is a section on interviewing in the Dermott's Human Rights Investigation manual. Styles do…

  • Funding

    [[Image:14920-2.JPG|right|frame|Excavator at work at the mass grave near the al-Mahawil military base in Iraq (David I. Gross)]] There are three possible funding sources: grants, organizations, and a publisher. I think we should go for all possibilities. The ICRC could supply funding, legal research and consulting. They could also submit articles. MSF could contribute articles and…

  • Forward

    To the Public (need text) To Photographers This booklet is meant to be a guide to a photographer. It is a collection of generalized shooting scripts, or lists of topics, grouped by subject. There are also a few tidbits of information about things commonly encountered in war zones and in human rights work. Torture, forensics,…

  • Forensic Victim Identification

    [[Image:12690-3.JPG|frame|A skeleton in the morgue in Orahovac/Rahovec, Kosovo, being examined for a war crimes case, shows signs of torture and murder: a bullet through the head, a shattered leg, broken ribs, and shrapnel from a hand-grenade. (David I. Gross)]] Forensic victim identification is an entire theme, not a scene. Scripts Shooting Script * Expert staff…

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