Jones, Lynne (Myfanwy) (Lynne Mastnak)

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Jones, Lynne (Myfanwy)
(Lynne Mastnak)

PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Home—England. Office—Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane, Cambridge, England CB2 3RF; fax: 44-1223-330574.

CAREER: Child psychiatrist, research associate, and writer. Cambridge University, research associate; International Medical Corps, child psychiatrist; Child Advocacy International, Kosovo, emergency physician, 1998-99, medical director of child psychiatry service, 1999-.

Worked with Doctors without Borders and Child Advocacy International in Bosnia and Kosovo to establish child psychiatric services.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named to Order of the British Empire, 2001.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Keeping the Peace (nonfiction), Women's Press (London, England) 1983.

States of Change: A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989, Merlin Press (London, England), 1990.

Then They Started Shooting: Growing up in Wartime Bosnia, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals, including London Review of Books (as Lynne Mastnak), New Statesman, British Medical Journal, and Manchester Guardian.

SIDELIGHTS: As a child psychiatrist based in Cambridge, England, Lynne Jones has devoted much of her career to humanitarian work, particularly in war-torn areas of central Europe. Since 1989 she has worked with various international agencies such as Doctors without Borders, Child Advocacy International, and International Medical Corps, with a focus on establishing child psychiatric services in the Balkans. Two books by Jones have been influenced heavily by her experiences in central Europe: States of Change: A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989, and Then They Started Shooting: Growing up in Wartime Bosnia.

Then They Started Shooting describes the lives of children growing up in war-ridden central Europe. Jones divided the book into three sections, first tracing the lives of forty children living in war-torn areas, followed by a discussion of how children digest many of the issues brought up by war, and concluding with the longer term psychological impact of conflict on children. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly commented that Jones' work "offers new insights into Bosnian Serb-Muslim relations through the eyes of children and addresses perennial issues of war, trauma and prejudice."