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Marc Sommers has worked on issues ranging from humanitarian coordination and civilian-military relations to the impact of war on children and youths. A research fellow at Boston University's African Studies Center, he has served as a consultant for a wide range of agencies, including Oxfam America, UNESCO, the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. His research has been supported by the Ford, Guggenheim, Mellon, and Rotary foundations. His forthcoming publications include Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania and a monograph on humanitarian coordination, to be published by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University later this year.

The Dynamics of Coordination, Occasional Paper #40, by Marc Sommers. 2000.

NATO and Humanitarian Action in the Kosovo Crisis, Occasional Paper #36 by Larry Minear, Ted van Baarda, and Marc Sommers. 2000.[review by Bert Kremers] [review by J.F. Stinissen]