Humanitarian Forensic Scientists Trace the Missing, Identify the Dead and Comfort the Living

Ahmad Samarji, Phoenicia University and Dina Shokry, Cairo University   The word “forensic” is typically associated with crimes and legal disputes. Forensic medicine, for example, applies medical knowledge to establish the causes of injury or death.   But forensic science can have a humanitarian role, too. Working under international humanitarian law rather than local or […]