“The Vulture and the Little Girl.”
This shocking and disturbing image, which first appeared in the New Your Times on 26 March 1993, brought into the collective psyche of the world the unfolding horror of the Second Sudanese Civil War and the heretofore unknown human trade that was playing out thousands of miles away. This photograph earned its author, South African news photographer Keven Carter, the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism, but also an incredible sense of guilt for the personal inability to make a difference on the ground that culminated in his suicide several months after winning the Pulitzer.
An integral component of both global engagement and international emergency disaster management / humanitarian assistance and response is an awareness of the world around us.
The discussion assignment is to research the events that brought both Kevin Carter and this young child to the feeding station in Sudan.
What is your initial “gut” reaction, both from the perspective of an emergency management professional, a responder, or a humanitarian aid worker and that of just an American living so far from all this.
In short, what is our next step in engagement as a person, a local community, a nation-state, and the world community? And why.