Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch's emergencies director and an expert in humanitarian crises, is responsible for coordinating the organization's response to major wars and other human rights crises. A Belgian-born Stanford Law School graduate, specializing in the laws of war, Bouckaert is a veteran of fact-finding missions to Lebanon, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Macedonia, Indonesia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and many other war zones. Mr. Bouckaert's most recent assignments included investigating the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and the 2005 massacre of hundreds of protesters in Andijan, Uzbekistan. He has testified about war crimes before the United States Senate, the Council of Europe, and at the Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY) in the Hague, and has written opinion pieces for papers around the world.

• Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War (September 2007)
• Nowhere to Flee: The Perilous Situation of Palestinians in Iraq (September 2006)
• Claims in Conflict: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq (August 2004)
• "Bullets Were Flying Like Rain": The Andijan Massacre, May 13, 2005 (June
  2005)

Selected Articles

• "White Flags, Not a Legitimate Target," Guardian Unlimited, 31 July 2006
• "The Brutal Trap of Nepal's Civil War," International Herald Tribune, 22 October 2004
• "Azerbaijan: A Stolen Election and Oil Stability," International Herald Tribune, 20 October 2003