Julie A. Mertus is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at American University. She is the coeditor of "The Suitcase: Refugees' Voices from Bosnia and Croatia" (California, 1997), coauthor of "Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo" (1994), and the author of "Local Action/Global Change" (1999). Mertus's articles on the Kosovo crisis have appeared in major newspapers.