飽受戰爭蹂躪的巴爾幹半島的和平與重建工作，需要各式各樣的技能。加拿大籍的馬克斯坦醫師(Dr. Peter Markesteyn)的專業是法醫。他在科索沃的3次義工任務─最近一次是以2001-02年度扶輪基金會大學教師至開發中國家服務獎助金受獎人的身分─均有十分重要的貢獻。

Peacemaking and reconstruction in the war-ravaged Balkans require many skills. Canadian Dr. Peter Markesteyn's expertise is in forensic medicine. During three volunteer assignments in Kosovo - most recently with a 2001-02 Rotary Foundation Grant for University Teachers - he made significant contributions. 

加拿大曼尼托巴省溫尼及格(Winnipeg)扶輪社的馬克斯坦第一次前往科索沃是在1999年，當時他剛從曼尼托巴省法醫總局局長的職位退休。他以加拿大警察與法醫小組一員的身分，協助聯合國國際犯罪法庭調查前南斯拉夫時期在科索沃的人道犯罪事實。該小組在1999與2000年收集的證據稍後用於荷蘭海牙的戰犯審判。

A member of the Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Markesteyn first went to Kosovo in 1999, the year he retired as Manitoba's chief medical examiner. As part of a Canadian police and forensic team, he assisted the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in its investigation of alleged crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Evidence the team gathered in 1999 and 2000 was later used at war crimes trials in The Hague, Netherlands.

2001年3月中，馬克斯坦回到科索沃，這一次是擔任普里斯丁納大學法醫學院的代理院長。這個計劃是由加拿大國際發展署贊助，加拿大世界大學服務協會主持。這所學院的教職員在遭驅離10年後返回，相當缺乏經驗。馬克斯坦首另外一名加拿大籍的同事一起協助重建該所學院，為其取得最新的實驗室設備與國際金援，並與知名大學建立合作關係。

In mid-March 2001, Markesteyn returned to Kosovo, this time as interim director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Pristina, a project supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and administered by World University Service of Canada. The institute's faculty, returning a decade after their expulsion, lacked experience. With a Canadian colleague, Markesteyn helped rebuild the institute, securing for it state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, international funding, and ties with renowned universities. 

馬克斯坦說：「此學院在司法部門提供的法醫服務，以及對學生醫學與法律專業的教導，足以讓科索沃引以為傲。」他在該學院服務到2002年5月，並擔任曼尼托巴大學的法醫部主管多年。

"The Kosovo community has every reason to be proud of the forensic services that the institute can render in the administration of justice and the teaching of students in the faculties of medicine and law," says Markesteyn, who served at the institute through May 2002 and headed the forensic science section at the University of Manitoba for many years.  

去年在科索沃期間，馬克斯坦同時獲得加拿大國際發展署與扶輪基金會的贊助(他的贊助地區是第5550地區，包含曼尼托巴省以及安大略省、薩克奇萬省的部份地區，接待他的是第2480地區，包括保加利亞、前南斯拉夫共和國馬其頓、南斯拉夫聯邦共和國、以及希臘的一部份。)

While in Kosovo last year, Markesteyn received funding for expenses from both CIDA and The Rotary Foundation (his sponsor district was 5550, Manitoba and parts of Ontario and Saskatchewan, and his host district was 2480, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and part of Greece). 

馬克斯坦說他向來很喜歡扶輪的一點是「例會中非關醫學的好演講。因為我在科索沃的經驗，扶輪的國際聯誼是我最重視的東西。」

Markesteyn says one thing he has always liked about Rotary is "good speeches at club meetings that are not about medicine. Since my experience in Kosovo, Rotary's international fellowship is what I value most."