Studies on military peacekeepers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 31-48

  Weerts, Jos M P ^a   White, Wendy ^b   Adler, Amy B ^c   Castro, Carl A ^c   Algra, Gielt ^d   Bramsen, Inge ^e   Dirkzwager, Anja J E ^e   Van Der Ploeg, Henk M ^e   De Vries, Maaike ^f   Zijlmans, Ad ^g  

^a The National Institute for Veterans   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c US Army Medical Research Unit Europe   (Germany)

^d Veterans Institute   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84948753343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315223742-9     Document Type: Chapter

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