How am I qualified ? Well, after working for the Smithsonian Institute, as well as the Department of National Defense in Canada (spelled as Defence in Canada) I finished my undergraduate degree at The George Washington University in DC in International Affairs, then did my Master's Degree at the University of Waterloo, Canada and was recruited by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva. I was quickly posted to the former Yugoslavia as a field investigator in 1994 as I am fluent in Serbo-Croatian. I remained there for several years, transferring to the United Nations Mission in Bosnia- UNMIBH command in Croatia, then joined the UN International Criminal Tribunal and was the Deputy Head of Office in Belgrade until 2005 when I returned to the United States to relax after 12 years in a war zone and decided to make wine for a change of pace. - all can be researched here on the internet. So does that answer your question ?