samantha nutt
intro’d to Samantha via ted talks live 2015
i have seen the absolute worst of what we as human beings are capable of doing to one another.. and yet i still believe a different outcome is possible..
why – i have come to understand that there are aspects of this problem that we can change.. not through force/coercion/invasion.. but by choosing options that favor peace at the expense of war instead of war at the expense of peace..
800 mill small arms..today… ak47 as little as $10… easier to get access to auto rifle than clean water..
can anything be done about this..
6 million – more than 40 mill people died
most of the people dying in war are living in poor countries.. most of the people profiting from war.. are living in rich countries…
80% of those/all weapons come from the 5 permanent members of un security council plus germany
small arms anywhere are a menace everywhere.. because their first stop is never their last
we can make different choices here.. war is ours.. we buy it.. sell it.. spread it .. and wage it.. we are therefore not powerless to solve it.. we are the only ones who can..
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Doctor, writer, foreign affairs obsessive. War Child founder
@warchildcan@warchildusa. Author, Damned Nations. Views my own, etc.
Samantha Joan Nutt, CM, OOnt, FRCPC, CCFP (born October 1969), is founder and Executive Director ofWar Child Canada. She is a physician with more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones. Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
Throughout her career, Nutt has focused on providing assistance to war-affected women and children. She is the founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada/War Child USA and has worked with the United Nations and non-governmental organizations. Nutt has worked with children and their families on the front-line of many crises including Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone,Somalia, Darfur, South Sudan, Burundi, northern Uganda, Ethiopia and the Thai-Burmese border.
Nutt is on staff at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is also on the board of the David Suzuki Foundation. She is married to Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long Term Care, Eric Hoskins.
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a nother way.. for all of us.. for (blank)’s sake…
be you. 