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A compendium of lectures of the ‘Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series’ by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Brendan Cahill, H.E. Mary Robinson, H.E. President Michael D. Higgins, Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett DSM, PhD, Dr. Caitriona Dowd, Matthew Hollingworth, Anne-Laure Duval, Jamie McGoldrick, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, TD. Topics include emergency and disaster management, environmental policy, health policy, and peace and conflict.
What is it like to run away from bombing, lose your family, and work out how to take care of yourself in a foreign country when you are seven years old? What do you do when the woman who promised you a good job in Europe turns out to have sold you into prostitution? How do you escape from torture and detention in Libya? What is it like to almost drown in the Mediterranean and then be confined in a garbage and rat-filled settlement on a Greek island for years?
Larry Hollingworth, current visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University in New York City, served as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s. Aid Memoir follows Larry and his UN colleagues throughout multiple efforts to provide much-needed relief for besieged, isolated, and desperate communities riddled by senseless killing and aggression. The characters encountered throughout are at times thrilling, at times frightening. Larry spares no details, however troubling, and therefore shines a telling light on the reality of the situation that most will remember to have watched on their television screens.
This book—part memoir, part political statement—examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal.
