We are excited to welcome Dr. Fiona Terry, Practitioner-in-Residence at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, to our campus.   She will speak on The Central Dilemma of Humanitarian Action: How best to help while minimizing the harm, drawing on contemporary situations such as Darfur and Afghanistan to illustrate her points.  

Fiona Terry has spent most of the past 15 years involved in humanitarian relief operations in different parts of the world, including in Northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia, and along the Sino-Korean border. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as a research director with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in Paris, before spending three years in Myanmar (Burma) with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Terry holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (2002). She won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

Please join us Thursday, October 29th from 12-1 in McGavran-Greenberg, Room 2304.  Free lunch will be provided.  

Sponsored by the Student Global Health Committee's Health and Human Rights Speaker Series, UNC Student Congress, and the Center for Global Initiatives.

For more information on Dr. Terry, please visit: http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/people/faculty/fiona-terry/