Dr. James Orbinski is a humanitarian advocate and former president of the world's largest independent medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, for which he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He offers a compelling look at the ravages of genocide and civil war, the role of humanitarianism, and the conflict that arises from combining humanitarian assistance with a political agenda. He is currently a research scientist and associate professor of family and community medicine and political science at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. He is also the founder and president of Dignitas International, an NGO launched to provide and research community-based care and the prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in the developing world. Orbinski is the author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?
Doctors Without Borders, founded in the 1971, is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than seventy countries.
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