Places as distant and different from each other as Afghanistan and Peru, Sudan and Kosovo, have one thing in common: war. This collection of seventy interviews with people who have experienced armed conflict, whether as civilians, peacekeepers, parents, healers, or children, gives voice to extraordinary stories of survival and suffering, justice and trauma, from around the world. Rausch, director of the Rule of Law Center at the United States Institute of Peace, has traveled extensively and listened closely.