David Rohde is The Christian Science Monitor's Balkan correspondent based in Zagreb, Croatia. Mr. Rohde joined the Monitor's staff in June 1993 and worked as a feature writer and editor and as a roving National news correspondent before taking his current post in October 1994. Mr. Rohde won the George Polk, Overseas Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi, and Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and the Paul Tobenkin Award for Human Rights Reporting for his coverage of the war in Bosnia.

He is currently working on a book about the conflict. It will be a reconstruction of the fall of Srebrenica, based on the experiences and perspectives of five characters - two Muslims, two Serbs, and one Dutch peacekeeper. As Rohde, put it, through them, the book "will tell the story of Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust."

Prior to coming to the Monitor, Rohde covered Bucks County, PA, and municipal government for the Philadelphia Inquirer from August 1993 to June 1994. He has worked as a freelancer in Syria for the Washington Report, in the Baltic republics for The New York Times, and as a production assistant for ABC's "Turning Point" and "World News Tonight."

Rohde graduated from Brown University in May 1990 with a BA in history and speaks fluent Spanish.