Javier Zúñiga's almost 40 years working in human rights includes senior positions at Amnesty International, including most recently as Special Adviser on Regions, as Director of OHCHR's Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda, and directing the human rights program of the joint UN/OAS Mission to Haiti. His work has focused especially on armed conflict and counter insurgency. The views expressed here are his own, and should not be attributed to Amnesty International.