This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace » (1st Edition)

Swanee Hunt is the Founder and Chair of Women Waging Peace, a global policy–oriented initiative working to integrate women into peace processes. During her tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Austria (1993–97), she hosted negotiations and several international symposia to focus efforts on securing the peace in the neighboring Balkan states. Swanee Hunt is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, and President of the Hunt Alternatives Fund. She has written hundreds of articles for American and international newspapers and professional journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the International Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and the Denver Post. She is a syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard news service.

Combines Bosnian women's personal testimony about the recent war and its aftermath with Ambassador Hunt's analysis of the U.S. government's appproach to the conflict.

Rocky Mountain News - Verna Noel Jones

"[Hunt] succeeds in offering a historically detailed account of the war and the women's experiences. Her narrative is heart-rending and filled with revealing pictures of the women's strength, courage and leadership."