Roger Williamson has been Vice-Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament (CCADD), and is actively involved in committees of the Conference of European Churches and the World Council of Churches.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Dedication and Introductory Essay Sydney D. Bailey (1919-1995): In Memoriam; R.Harries Introduction; M.Howard PART 1: INTERVENTION: THE NEW FACE OF WAR? State Sovereignty, Human Rights and Intervention; R.Williamson Some Corner of a Foreign Field; D.Fisher When Is a War not a War?; B.Wicker PART 2: INTERVENTION AND THE JUST WAR TRADITION Can Intervention be Just?; A.Harvey Humanitarian Intervention: The Contemporary Debate; O.Ramsbotham Second Thoughts on First Principles; H.Beach PART 3: WAR BY OTHER MEANS? WIDER DIMENSIONS OF THE DEBATE War by Other Means; O.O'Donovan Intervention and Crimes Against Humanity; B.Paskins From National to International Policing; B.Wicker PART 4: GEOPOLITICS, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERVENTION Humanitarian Intervention: A New Role for the United Nations; C.Ero & S.Long Use of Armed Forces as an Instrument of Policy; C.Barnett Post-Cold War Illusions and Daunting Realities; R.Falk PART 5: TRIED AND FOUND WANTING? THE UNITED NATIONS UNDER SCRUTINY Cases and Criteria: The UN in Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia; C.Ero & S.Long The Ethics of Intervention and Former Yugoslavia; D.Fisher Rwanda: The Media and the Message; C.Ero & S.Long PART 6: INTERVENTION BY WESTERN POWERS: GETTING IN AND GETTING OUT Causes, Aims and Means of Intervention; H.Beach The Foreign Policy of Western Countries: The Problem of Intervention; J.Roper The Past and the Future of Intervention: A View from the United States; J.Langan PART 7: INTERIM EVALUATION Sword and Pen: Journalists and the Wars of the Future; B.Beedham The UN: Peace and Security: A Balance Sheet; A.Parsons An Ethical Framework: Or Just Intervention?; R.Williamson Index