Peter Maass will discuss the difficulties reporters confront as they cover war crimes in the world’s conflict zones. Drawing on first-hand experience in the Middle East and the Balkans, Maass will describe his methods for dealing with wary soldiers and freelance insurgents. He will describe his efforts to chronicle the killings of civilians by American Marines during the Iraq invasion, as well as his detention by Serbian paramilitaries while looking for a secret prison camp in Bosnia. His talk will illuminate the realities of reporting in war zones where armies and insurgents alike often regard reporters as hostile partisans.