Special News--May 2022
Into the Global Fray
Four New Books from Friends
Global Integration (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). ---------
Overview
In this Update we are delighted to feature four new books from friends with whom we have worked internationally and across sectors in various areas. Linking the books together is this month's theme, "Into the Global Fray"--into the global integration fray. It is a reflection of both the challenges and opportunities for living in peace with one another and promoting equity, justice, and wellbeing for all people and the planet.
We think you will enjoy and appreciate these new books. And so...we encourage you to venture further into the global fray by delving into at least one of them!
--Pelagia: Between the Stars and the Abyss (2021) by Steve Holloway
--Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War (2021)
by Leonard Rubenstein
--Behavioral Science in the Global Arena: Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health (2022) edited by Elaine P. Congress, Dalton Meister, Shenae C. Osborn, and Harold Takooshian
--The Global Nomad’s Guide to University Transition (2022 second edition) by Tina L. Quick
Going Further--see these Global Integration Updates:
--Peace on Earth–Sharing our Stories and Strategies (January 2022)
--Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet (July 2021)
--Stories from the Sectors: Desperate Journeys and More (March 2020)
Warm greetings,
Kelly and Michèle
MCAresources@gmail.com
Featured Resources
Into the Global Fray
Four New Books from Friends
Global Integration (GI) encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.
What a Wonderful World--Eva Cassidy--music video
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Pelagia:
Between the Stars and the Abyss (2021)
Steve Holloway
An engaging novel about life on our precarious,
perilous, and precious earth--and sea--in 2066
“Former special forces agent turned particle physicist Ben Holden is on the run. Those seeking him will stop at nothing to get their hands on his wife’s scientific research, which is believed to hold the key to unleashing chaos in the West and advancing their cause.
But in reality it’s Ben’s biometrics that have the potential to unlock the information they so desperately need. Within the oceanic world of Pelagia, in the year 2066, Ben finds sanctuary among the sea settlers of the South Pacific Pelagic Territory, but his respite is short-lived…”
You can learn more about our amazing ocean and the background to this book plus interact with Steve on the Pelagia Blog.
Perilous Medicine:
The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War (2021)
Leonard Rubenstein
Compelling case studies, lessons, and a summons for safeguarding
health care providers and services in conflict settings
“Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers has become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to tend to those in need. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long-standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care.
Leonard Rubenstein―a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities against health workers around the world―offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. In a dozen case studies, he shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients under dire circumstances including health workers hiding from soldiers in the forests of eastern Myanmar as they seek to serve oppressed ethnic communities, surgeons in Syria operating as their hospitals are bombed, and Afghan hospital staff attacked by the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces. Rubenstein reveals how political and military leaders evade their legal obligations to protect health care in war, punish doctors and nurses for adhering to their responsibilities to provide care to all in need, and fail to hold perpetrators to account.
Bringing together extensive research, firsthand experience, and compelling personal stories, Perilous Medicine also offers a path forward, detailing the lessons the international community needs to learn to protect people already suffering in war and those on the front lines of health care in conflict-ridden places around the world.”
You can learn more listening to the Public Health on Call podcast interview with Len as well as other interviews with him HERE.
Behavioral Science in the Global Arena:
Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health (2022)
A volume in the International Psychology series
Edited by Elaine Congress, Dalton Meister, Shenae Osborn, Harold Takooshian
The many ways that behavioral scientists are increasingly
contributing to wellbeing for all people and the planet
“In 2020, the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations (PCUN) launched a bold new series of books, describing how evidence- based behavioral research is increasingly used by United Nations and other decision-makers, to address global issues. These issues reflect the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030—such as health, poverty, education, peace, gender equality, and climate change.
This PCUN volume brings together 34 experts in 14 concise chapters, to focus on diverse issues in mental, spiritual, and social health (TOC in the book title-link above). The chapters are co-authored by leading global experts as well as “rising star” students from many nations--offering readers a concise overview of each topic, a glossary of key terms, study questions, and bibliography. This volume is suitable as a textbook for diverse courses in psychology, social work, cross-cultural and international studies.” We are really pleased to have jointly authored chapter one with Dr Julian Eaton on "Mental Health: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Well-Being."
You can learn more by visiting the website for the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations including the annual Psychology Day at the United Nations (the theme for the April 2022 event is “Building Hope Contributions to a Roadmap for Climate Action”).
The Global Nomad’s Guide
to University Transition (2022 second edition)
Tina L. Quick
Guest authors Amanda Bates, Lois Bushong, Lauren Wells
Superb guidance for excelling
at cross-cultural journeys into university life
“Starting college in a new country is exciting, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming....Tina addresses in detail the four most common stumbling blocks [global nomads and Third Culture Kids] face in the transition to college/transition that can come as a huge surprise. She strongly believes if all students were aware of them, they would have smoother transitions.
• The transition cycle—Involvement, Leaving, Transition, Entering, Re-involvement
• TCK identity development—the search for congruence in the sense of who they are as TCKs
• Unresolved grief—from multiple losses and separations
• Relationships—how global nomads relate differently from their domestic peers
The Second Edition includes new articles by the guest authors on “diversity, equity, and inclusion and building a career; mental health issues and finding a counselor; dismantling your grief tower and romantic relationships; as well as updates and new stories brought about by 10 years of cultural change and a pandemic and an expanded Parents’ chapter addressing the fallout of common parenting strategies as well as how parents can come alongside their students, prepare them for the journey, and support them throughout this major transition.”
You can learn more about Tina’s background and insights as a global nomad and trainer-consultant in her ExpatFocus Interview HERE.
