(A collaboration between specialists)
The sequence of violent events that struck the Balkan regions of Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina in 1991 to 1995, and the embarrassment about the inability to stop it, prompted the international world to act. Many mental health programs were implemented acknowl- edging that the majority of the civilian population were directly and severely affected by the psychological drama of the war (Jensen, 1996; Soroya & Stubbs, 1998). The massive presence of mental health professionals in this war had been unprecedented (Arcel, 1998).