 I'm Ann Frisch. I am a returned peacekeeper from the Unbile of Peaceforce. We are unarmed civilian peacekeepers. What that means is we are engaging in the practice of civilian to civilian work in areas of armed conflict. We are invited by civilians in local conflict. People who are deeply rooted in those communities and they are civilians and they are seeking protection for themselves and an end to the violence. We are there for protection, to reduce violence, and we help provide safe spaces for civilians to do the work of peace building and peacemaking. All the decisions that need to be made about peace and about the warring parties is legitimately done by civilians in the area of conflict. Not by outsiders, not even mediated by outsiders. We are there to protect them while they do the work. And they are the ones who know what the options are. They are the ones to know whether the people who are starting the conflict are freedom fighters or insurgent rebels. People say that one of the casualties of war is the truth. And so, rumors why people leave their homes because they heard a rumor. And one of our jobs is to get the facts of the case and report it back to civilians so they can make good decisions about things. Should we flee? Should we stay at home? What happens to our kids in their school? Those are all legitimate decisions. If they end up in an internally displaced camp, it's their decision whether to go home or not. And we sometimes accompany them when they go back. We stay with them in the internally displaced or refugee camps so that they can, we are kind of helping them keep their families together, keeping their communities together, their ways of making decisions, their ability to talk to our parties and to see what are the facts that they need to have for them to make good decisions.