In Witness, we are invited to experience an extraordinary yet mostly unseen dimension of this great figure — Elie Wiesel as teacher. In this profoundly personal account from one of his closest students, we see Wiesel communicating memory as a way of restoring morality to the process of learning. Wiesel raising difficult questions that help people grow more than any easy answers ever could. Wiesel the man of faith wrestling with God and sacred texts.
Wiesel the witness turning his students into witnesses themselves. Witness brings a great and mythic being down to earth. Read this book and become a better person. Now, thanks to Ariel Burger—a writer of great spiritual and intellectual integrity—we have access to the way Wiesel taught generations of students, not only through his words but in the way he lived his life and held his relationships.
Wiesel was a treasure of true humanity in the face of unspeakable suffering. This book is also a treasure, giving us clue after clue about how to transcend and transform the suffering of our own time, turning death into life.
Palmer, author of On the Brink of Everything, Healing the Heart of Democracy, and The Courage to Teach "Burger recounts his inspiring relationship with Wiesel and the generous lessons he learned from him in this hopeful book.
He shares details of the thought-provoking lectures as well as the heartfelt questions with which Wiesel challenged his students. Witness is a moral education — 'a primer on educating against indifference, on the urgency of memory and individual responsibility' It is not a business book; better, it is a guide for ethical behavior and should instill courage in the reader to make tough, necessary decisions.
Charity-and-Security T January 17th, Toggle Sliding Bar Area. Follow Us. The Report includes all of the sections required by the Act and I will attempt to cover the items raised in each section that have drawn upon or may affect the international legal framework aimed at atrocity prevention.
The Report references ongoing efforts within the United Nations system to address at-risk countries, including the provision of satellite imagery to the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Burma. It also reemphasized the U. Of course, such assertions of compliance and engagement with the U. While the Administration cites efforts to engage with the UN system, these systematic withdrawals, the downgrading of the post of U. Ambassador to the UN from a cabinet position , and the ongoing recovery of the eight month gap left after Ambassador Nikki Haley departed in January make it difficult to anticipate significant investment of time and resources on behalf of the United States in cooperating with the United Nations system.
The Report also flags regional organization and country-to-country engagement, including work with the African Union and efforts to address protection of civilians issues through military commands.
This is a growing area of focus among civil society and national actors and is a welcome addition to the conversation. The author would note that he was a part of the civil society engagement meetings mentioned in this section, and contributed to the recommendations referenced in Section IV as well.
While those meetings took place off-the-record, the sense of the civil society community is that they were positive interactions with the representative U. Government agencies and departments.
The four specific recommendation mentioned in the Report were a small portion of the issues raised by civil society. They do address significant areas of improvement that the U. Government should address, including:. This section lays out the ongoing efforts already in place at the various U. The Administration offered no explanation for the name change in the Report, but discussion by civil society organizations raised several concerns.
The individuals from within the U. Removing that word from the official name for the interagency cooperation mechanism may have unintended consequences when it comes to the efforts undertaken by the interagency process to address the real need of peoples around the world who may go from being at risk to victims in a very short period of time.
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