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Diane Paul is a human rights researcher based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her primary geographical focus has been on the former Yugoslavia. She served as social welfare delegate for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Croatia and later conducted field investigations of human rights abuses in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995-98) on behalf of Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. She served as principal investigator under the direction of the late Fred Cuny for a study on strategies for the field-based protection of civilians under threat. She is certified as an instructor/facilitator in international humanitarian law by the American Red Cross. Her academic degrees are in developmental psychology and social work. She is the author of numerous publications on human rights and humanitarian issues and of a book, soon to be published, that is referenced in the text.

Protecting Human Rights: The Challenge to Humanitarian Organizations, Occasional Paper #35, by Mark Frohardt, Diane Paul, Larry Minear. 1999.