LEADER 04858nam 22005655 450 001 9910865248303321 005 20240605130231.0 010 $a9789819723638$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789819723621 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-2363-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31458357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31458357 035 $a(CKB)32245819100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-2363-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932245819100041 100 $a20240605d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn Defence of Our Humanity $eReal Life as a United Nations Ambassador in a Troubled World /$fby Stephen Hill 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (369 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 311 08$aPrint version: Hill, Stephen In Defence of Our Humanity Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2024 9789819723621 327 $aIntroduction: Death and Life the United Nations Way -- Walking in the Door -- Learning to Walk the Diplomatic Path -- Settling Into an Expatriate World -- Jungle Hostages ? I: Capture -- Jungle Hostages ? II: Negotiating Peoples? Lives Across Cultures -- Jungle Hostages ? III: A Deeply Troubled Resolution -- ?Flying Pigs? ? The Start of a Voyage into the Future -- Lighting the Way ? Building the Future for Indigenous People of West Papua -- The Critical Importance of Local Engagement and Listening -- Changing Things in the Real World ? Learning from the Edge -- Community Empowerment ? Lessons from Peace Building and Urban Environment Initiatives in Poor Communities -- Revolution - Lead Up -- Revolution ? NOW -- Revolution ? Aftermath -- Opportunity out of Challenge ? Opening Up Media Freedom -- The Time was Right - Basic Education Reform -- Tsunami ? The Day the Ocean Moved -- The Human Story of the Tsunami -- Preparing for Another Tsunami -- Bridging the Two UN Cultures ? Reform for the Future -- Final Wrap ? The Force of Cultural Empowerment. 330 $aThis book is based on Stephen Hill?s direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff?based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific as well as Principal Director and Ambassador of the United Nations Agency UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) across South East Asia. It was not always a quiet life. Stephen had to handle the negotiations and aftermath of two of his own UN staff taken hostage in 1996 for five months by freedom fighters into the jungles of West Papua; the May 1998 Revolution in Indonesia where he had to escape his house at 2.00am through mobs and fires while his own security staff had changed into civilian clothes and run off down the street to escape, then evacuate everyone else, but stay to report to the UN Security Council and liaise with the incoming Transition Government. In the early 2000s, Stephen needed to escape Indonesia, under UN Security instruction, from the terrorist organisation, Abu Sayyaf from Mindanao, the Southern Philippines, when they sent a Hit Squad down through Manado and across Sulawesi towards Jakarta to assassinate him in Jakarta because of his collaborative work throughout Mindanao?s previous fundamentalist Islamic conflict zones, amongst other things, bringing literacy to 7,000 villagers, mainly women, building nine radio stations with community support across religious lines, and introducing basic education into Islamic Schools previously teaching only the Koran and Arabic. This book captures all of this rather exciting life but delivers a message from experience?the Power of Community and Cultural Empowerment in successful United Nations Action to bring positive change into the world. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 606 $aInternational organization 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aInternational relations$xHistory 606 $aInternational Organization 606 $aInternational Relations 606 $aDiplomatic and International History 615 0$aInternational organization. 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aInternational relations$xHistory. 615 14$aInternational Organization. 615 24$aInternational Relations. 615 24$aDiplomatic and International History. 676 $a327.06 700 $aHill$b Stephen$0375649 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865248303321 996 $aIn Defence of Our Humanity$94168642 997 $aUNINA