Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrate issues of protection and care into all levels of planning, implementing and evaluating international intervention and action. The book identifies approaches that have proven useful and explores and suggests future directions. The book reports comprehensively existing empirical knowledge about stress and post traumatic stress reactions and associated interventions among military peacekeepers, and represents the first significant effort to publish comparable research on their civilian counterparts. Interwoven among the chapters are "voices" whose authors express in personal and moving terms the impact of their experiences. This volume consists of six sections, subdivided into chapters according to the type of international protectors and providers (United Nation’s military and nonmilitary peacekeepers and peace builders; civilian staff of the UN system, volunteers, non-governmental organizations, and the media); the organizations they represent; their focus (such as women, children and forensic work); the nature of knowledge (data-based, descriptive, and reflective experiential) and challenges and remedies (such as psychological, educational, legal and political). The concluding chapter elaborates policy and program recommendations