The human impact of violence lasts long beyond signing of a treaty. Capturing the impact of this ‘collateral damage’ is the power of AFTERWAR by Lori Grinker. According to Grinker “The twentieth century was one of history’s deadliest. Over 10 million people died in about 165 wars, and countless others were wounded as nationalism, competing ideologies, religions and genocidal conflicts raged from Europe, through Asia, Africa and the Americas."