In Defence of Our Humanity: Real Life as a United Nations Ambassador in a Troubled World
Hill, Stephen
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-06-06
- 售價: $1,710
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 368
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819723620
- ISBN-13: 9789819723621
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This book is based on Stephen Hill's direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff--based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific as well as Principal Director and Ambassador of the United Nations Agency UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) across South East Asia.
It was not always a quiet life. Stephen had to handle the negotiations and aftermath of two of his own UN staff taken hostage in 1996 for five months by freedom fighters into the jungles of West Papua; the May 1998 Revolution in Indonesia where he had to escape his house at 2.00am through mobs and fires while his own security staff had changed into civilian clothes and run off down the street to escape, then evacuate everyone else, but stay to report to the UN Security Council and liaise with the incoming Transition Government. In the early 2000s, Stephen needed to escape Indonesia, under UN Security instruction, from the terrorist organisation, Abu Sayyaf from Mindanao, the Southern Philippines, when they sent a Hit Squad down through Manado and across Sulawesi towards Jakarta to assassinate him in Jakarta because of his collaborative work throughout Mindanao's previous fundamentalist Islamic conflict zones, amongst other things, bringing literacy to 7,000 villagers, mainly women, building nine radio stations with community support across religious lines, and introducing basic education into Islamic Schools previously teaching only the Koran and Arabic.
This book captures all of this rather exciting life but delivers a message from experience--the Power of Community and Cultural Empowerment in successful United Nations Action to bring positive change into the world.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書是基於Stephen Hill在聯合國工作多年的直接經驗，他曾擔任顧問以及在印尼全職工作十多年，兼任巴黎的兼職聯合國亞太區域科學主任和聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）的主任和大使，負責東南亞地區。
這並不是一個平靜的生活。1996年，Stephen必須處理兩名聯合國員工被自由戰士劫持進入西巴布亞叢林五個月的談判和事後處理；1998年5月，印尼發生革命，他不得不在凌晨2點逃離自己的住所，穿越人群和火災，而他的安全人員已換上便服逃跑，然後撤離其他人，但他留下來向聯合國安全理事會報告並與新上任的過渡政府聯繫。在2000年代初，根據聯合國安全指示，Stephen需要逃離印尼，因為恐怖組織阿布薩亞夫（Abu Sayyaf）從菲律賓南部的棉蘭老島派遣了一支刺客小組，穿過馬納多（Manado）和蘇拉威西（Sulawesi）前往雅加達暗殺他，原因是他在整個棉蘭老島的基本主義伊斯蘭衝突區域等方面進行了合作工作，為7000名村民（主要是婦女）提供識字教育，在跨宗教界限上建立了九個社區支持的廣播電台，並將基礎教育引入原先只教授古蘭經和阿拉伯語的伊斯蘭學校。
這本書記錄了這段相當激動人心的生活，並傳達了一個從經驗中得出的訊息-社區和文化賦權在聯合國成功行動中帶來積極變革的力量。
作者簡介
Stephen Hill is a polymath, qualified at research level and experienced in both natural and social sciences, and Professor of Sociology at age 30 at the University of Wollongong, Australia, now Emeritus Professor. Over his career, he was also awarded and founded the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Research Policy (1990 to 1995), served part-time as Australia's Foundation Chairman in APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization (1990 to 1995), and has consulted broadly through Asia for international agencies and countries since 1965. Meanwhile, he has been a prolific writer with many research articles across numerous disciplines and over 20 published books. His central objective over his career has been to foster knowledge for the sake of peoples' empowerment and welfare. He served full time as the United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific while in parallel as Ambassador and Field Director of the UN organization, UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, across South East Asia.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Stephen Hill是一位博學多才的學者，具有研究水平的資格，並在自然科學和社會科學領域有豐富的經驗。他在澳大利亞的Wollongong大學擔任社會學教授，並在30歲時成為該校的教授，現已退休。在他的職業生涯中，他還獲得了澳大利亞研究委員會研究政策卓越中心的獎項並創立了該中心（1990年至1995年），並在亞太經濟合作組織（APEC）擔任澳大利亞的基金會主席（1990年至1995年）。自1965年以來，他在亞洲各地為國際機構和國家提供廣泛的諮詢服務。與此同時，他是一位多產的作家，在多個學科領域發表了許多研究文章，並出版了20多本書籍。他職業生涯的核心目標是促進知識以造福人民的權益和福祉。同時，他全職擔任聯合國亞太地區科學主任，並同時擔任聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）在東南亞地區的大使和現場主任。
