保護世界上最脆弱的人們

Protecting the world’s ‘most vulnerable persons’

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Dan Nixon報導，國際扶輪新聞，2010年八月十三日

By Dan Nixon
Rotary International News -- 13 August 2010

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Kabosha表示，出生於南非尚比亞共和國的他，一直把幫助難民這個念頭放在心上。

Francis Kabosha says that growing up in the southern African nation of Zambia has given him a heart for helping refugees.

他說：「就像世界上許多其他國家一樣，尚比亞是貧窮的，但是它卻是相當和平的，並有著很長的一段時期都在照顧那些因暴力衝突而流離失所的人們。」

“Zambia is poor, just like many other third world countries, but quite peaceful, with a long history of looking after those displaced by violent conflict,” he says.

身為2008-10年度的扶輪和平獎學生，Kabosha歸國後在蘇丹的聯合國計畫中負責支援難民有關遣送、重建與復原的工作。在這之前，他是在尚比亞聯合國難民署（UNHCR）的難民部負責人。

A 2008-10 Rotary Peace Fellow, Kabosha recently began serving as an officer in the returns, reintegration, and recovery section of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, working in support of refugees and the internally displaced. Previously, he was a refugee officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Zambia.

Kobasha說：「我一直在難民保護這方面竭盡心力，我統籌過許多政府官員、非政府組織以及聯合國難民署的職員們的研討會。」「我另外也在其他人道主義的領域中負責人權相關議題以及防災部門的訓練。」

“I have been a resource person on refugee protection and have conducted several workshops for government officials, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], and UNHCR field staff,” Kabosha says. “I have done human rights and disaster management training, among other areas of humanitarian work.”

Kabosha是第一位同時完成扶輪和平中心所提供的碩士課程以及專業發展證書的和平獎學生。當2007年，他作，像是遣返在Mwange難民營與尚比亞周邊到剛果共和國的難民們。他是難民營事務處的代表人，另外也負責執行國內性、區域性甚至國際性有關於保護難民的法令以及協議。此外，他也培訓難民領導們在他們所在的區域中維持與促進和平。

Kabosha is the first peace fellow to complete both the professional development certificate program and the master’s degree program offered by the Rotary Peace Centers. After earning his certificate at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2007, he worked for UNHCR with government and nongovernment representatives to repatriate refugees living in the Mwange camp along the Zambian border to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was responsible for administration of refugee affairs in the camp and enforcing national, regional, and international conventions, statutes, and protocols for protecting refugees. He also trained refugee leaders in building and maintaining peace in their communities.

Kabosha陳述，由於他在聯合國難民署與專業發展領域中所學習到的經驗，讓他興起想更進一步瞭解衝突解決與管理的念頭，因此，他在尚比亞Nkwazi社的贊助下，以保羅與珍•艾得勒扶輪和平獎學生的身份在英國的布萊德大學修讀。在他運用經驗發揮所長的這段期間，他與在塞拉利昂的西非青年網路以及其他組織像是國防部、國家安全局、塞拉利昂特別法庭以及社會安全國家委員會，共同為聯合建立和平的目標而努力。

Kabosha says his experiences with UNHCR and the certificate program “triggered the desire for advanced training in conflict resolution and management,” leading him to study as a Paul and Jean Elder Endowed Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in England, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Nkwazi, Zambia. During his applied field experience, he worked in joint peace-building efforts with the West African Youth Network in Sierra Leone and its partners, including the Ministry of Defense, Office of National Security, Special Court for Sierra Leone, and National Commission for Social Action.

Chulalongkorn 說：「渴望去幫助那些亟需援手的人會使人提升到另一個層次。」他始終堅信並承諾：「去保護世界上最脆弱的人們，讓那些因為暴力衝突而流離失所的難民，使他們在非平常的環境中跟常人無異。」

His “desire to serve the needy has grown from one level to another,” Kabosha says, instilling in him a commitment “to protect the world’s most vulnerable persons: refugees, who as a result of violent conflicts, find themselves as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.”