Name: 【TED】薩曼莎-納特：全球軍火貿易的真正危害(The real harm of the global arms trade | Samantha Nutt) (【TED】Samantha Nutt: The real harm of the global arms trade (The real harm of the global arms trade | Samantha Nutt))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:29:51.000Z
Duration: 13 min 35 s

Some of you may have noticed that my last name is Nutt.

基礎被動語態

And if you did, you are forgiven for wondering

有些人也許已經留意到 我的姓氏常被取笑成「瘋子」。

how a Nutt managed to end up in a war zone.

如果你有注意到了的話， 我不見怪你們納悶著：

I actually was offered, right out of medical school, and accepted

一個瘋子怎麼可能煞費苦心 淪落到戰爭區裡？

a volunteer contract to work with UNICEF in war-torn Somalia,

剛從醫學院畢業後真的有人提出、 而且我也接受了一份志工契約－

與「聯合國兒童基金會」 在受戰火摧殘的索馬利亞服務，

And, you see, I had to be paid this dollar

in the event that the UN needed to issue an evacuation order,

因為如果聯合國需要發佈撤離命令，

I was, after all, heading into one of the world's most dangerous places.

And by now, some of you may be asking yourselves,

總之我前往了世界上最危險的地方。

現在你們有些人也許心裡正在問，

But you see, this is how, with 50 cents in my pocket,

這就是我的皮包裡如何有著 50 美分，

Journalists called it the "city of death."

because 300,000 people had lost their lives there --

他們這樣叫是因為已經有 三十萬人在那邊喪命了；

mostly as a result of war-related famine and disease.

大多是戰禍牽扯出的 飢荒和疾病所導致！

I was part of a team that was tasked with trying to figure out

how best to respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.

試圖找出妥善之計來應對這個人禍，

It was right on the heels of the Rwandan genocide,

and aid money to the region was drying up.

對這個地區的援助資金即將用罄，

許多援助機構不幸早已關門收攤。

所以人家特別請我 幫忙解答的問題──

And so the question that I was asked to specifically help answer,

全世界戰爭區的援助工作人員 問自己的一個問題：

which is one that aid workers ask themselves in war zones the world over,

「我們現在做的是什麼狗屁事啊？」

索馬利亞的治安環境在那個時刻

You know, the security environment in Somalia at that moment in time --

and nothing has really changed too much --

可以形容成發條橘子式的瘋狂麥斯。

can best be described as "Mad Max" by way of "A Clockwork Orange."

我非常鮮明地記得在我抵達的數天後，

And I remember very distinctly a couple of days after my arrival,

那裡有著數十位婦女正排著隊，

There were dozens of women who were standing in line,

and they were clutching their infants very close.

我和一位年輕婦女有著 大概 20 分鐘的對話，

About 20 minutes into this conversation I was having

試著把手指放在她小寶貝的掌心中，

and tried to put my finger in the palm of her baby's hand.

I discovered that her baby was already in rigor.

and her little, lifeless hand was curled into itself.

我後來得知當她的小寶貝 快要死掉的時候，

I later learned that as her baby was dying,

一些十來歲配有突擊步槍的男孩們，

this young woman had been held for two days

by some teenage boys who were armed with Kalashnikov rifles,

and they were trying to shake her down for more money,

And this is a scene that I have confronted

地方上的孩子們有些才八歲 ──他們是這般高大吧──

places where kids, some as young as eight -- they are this big --

但是他們已經用自動步槍 打過仗、殺過人了！

and those kids, they have never been to school.

But they have fought and they have killed with automatic rifles.

有些人會跟你們說戰爭避無可避，

畢竟它就跟世界的存在一樣長久；

Some will you tell you that war is unavoidably human.

我們說絕對不要再來一次， 它卻一次又一次的上演。

After all, it is as old as existence itself.

我將會告訴你我已經見識過 全然最惡劣的事情，

We say never again, and yet it happens again and again and again.

我們這些人類有本事 對其他人做出來的事；

But I will tell you that I have seen the absolute worst

不過我始終深信 不一樣的結果是有望的，

of what we as human beings are capable of doing to one another,

and yet I still believe a different outcome is possible.

進出世界各地戰爭區長達二十年來，

Because over 20 years of doing this work,

going in and out of war zones around the world,

我們全體 ──佔有這個共享空間的人們──

that we, all of us, as people occupying this shared space,

並非透過武力、逼迫或是侵略，

而是透過去看對我們來說 摸得著的所有選項，

not through force or coercion or invasion,

擇取有利於以消弭戰爭 為代價的和平，

but by simply looking at all of the options available to us

and choosing the ones that favor peace at the expense of war,

至少有著八億件的 小型槍械、輕型武器

there are at least 800 million small arms and light weapons

龐大主體的老百姓 ──就像那個小嬰兒──

在世界各地的戰爭區持續死去；

The vast majority of civilians, like that young baby,

who are dying in war zones around the world,

這些人憑藉近乎無限量供應之 便宜、容易和高效的武器，

are dying at the hands of various armed groups

每回以之強暴、威脅、 恐嚇和殘害那些老百姓。

who rely on a near-infinite supply of cheap, easy and efficient weapons

to rape, threaten, intimidate and brutalize those civilians

你能夠用與 10 美元一樣的小錢 買到一把 AK-47 步槍；

you can buy an AK-47 for as little as 10 dollars.

it is easier to get access to an automatic rifle

than it is to get access to clean drinking water.

讓我們看一眼這張世界地圖吧！

讓我們加總目前在戰禍中的國家，

let's take a look at this map of the world.

造成的死亡與流離失所之人數，

And now, let's add in all of the countries that are currently at war,

and the number of people who have either died

or have been displaced as a result of that violence.

不過關於這張地圖 你也會發現另外一些東西，

你會發現那些國家大部份 是在南半球。

【TED】薩曼莎-納特：全球軍火貿易的真正危害(The real harm of the global arms trade | Samantha Nutt) (【TED】Samantha Nutt: The real harm of the global arms trade (The real harm of the global arms trade | Samantha Nutt))

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