CHAPTER 20

Global Connectedness

Touching the World

Christoph Kurowski was born in Germany and has lived in Latin America and Africa. He also spent time in Lebanon and Sri Lanka with Doctors Without Borders. Today he is a global citizen and views the world as a single community. His role, he feels, is to bring this community closer together through a shared global vision and mutually rewarding cross-cultural relationships. What strikes you most is his deep sensitivity to other nationalities.

Christoph is working on the challenge of a lifetime: helping rebuild the social fabric in a region of the world torn apart by centuries of ethnic violence, the western Balkan countries. He is doing this under the auspices of the World Bank, where he works ...

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