Book Talk | We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced by Muhammad H. Zaman

Thursday, March. 7 // 10:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)

In We Wait for a Miracle, Muhammad H. Zaman shares moving stories that span seven countries—Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Colombia, and Venezuela— to highlight the experiences and everyday struggles of refugees and the displaced people in accessing the health care they need. “ In this book, Zaman pushes past statistics and stereotypes to write with complexity, urgency, and insight about health crises facing displaced people. Using the lived experience of the displaced people, Zaman spotlights three factors that influence access to health care: presence or absence of trust between the provider and patient, social network, and policy environment.

Join the Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative for a book discussion with the author, and discussants Megan Daigle and Paul B. Spiegel. The speakers will highlight the multifaceted relationship between the displaced people and the local host community and how that affects access to health care; key lessons that would shape policy and our understanding of the displaced people’s access to health services; neglected policy areas that need visibility in refugee health discourse; and the importance of lived experience and storytelling.

Still to Come this week

The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Monday, March 4 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)

The Project-State and Its Rivals offers a radical alternative interpretation that takes us from the transforming challenges of the world wars to our own time. Instead of the traditional narrative of domestic politics and international relations, Charles S. Maier looks to the political and economic impulses that propelled societies through a century when territorial states and transnational forces both claimed power, engaging sometimes as rivals and sometimes as allies.

North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development

Tuesday, March 5 // 10–11:00 am (ET)

In his latest book, North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development, former Wilson Center fellow and Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex Kevin Gray contextualizes the nexus of development and geopolitics in North Korean history.

Water and Energy in MENA After COP28

Tuesday, March 5 // 11:00 am–12:15 pm (ET)

This event will explore the issues of climate security and the water-energy nexus in the MENA region, featuring the work of two graduates of the Wilson Center Agents of Change Youth Fellowship and an expert commentator. This event will further explore the future of this nexus and technological and governance implications for providing energy and water security in the region after COP28 in Dubai, UAE.

Political Risk and Mexico's Investment Climate

Wednesday, March 6 // 2–3:15 pm (ET)

To make sense of the landscape, join us for a panel with Carlos Ramirez, partner at Integralia Consultores, Professor Guadlupe Correa-Cabrera, professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at Geroge Mason University, and Harry Krensky, founder of Discovery Americas, moderated by Christine Murray, Mexico and Central America correspondent for the Financial Times.