THE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE 2018 ISSUE OF THE UBC JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
The Annual Publication of the International Relations Student Association The University of British Columbia Situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people
Cover Design: Katelyn Roberts Cover Photograph: Avril Espinosa-Malpica Back Cover Photograph: Melissa Lee The cover photograph entitled “Moroccan girl’s pause at the foreigners” was taken in April 2016. The photographer describes the moment as follows: The pause the young Moroccan girl gave, as she rounded the corner and was confronted by a group of tourists, is something I will never forget. Her little brother ran past us, but she just stared. At what age do we begin to notice how different we are from one another and forget we are all just human? The back cover photograph was taken in June 2017. The photographer describes the photo as follows: The photo was taken in the small Quechua-Lamista community of Alto Pucalpillo where we were invited to help prepare and enjoy a community feast together. A group of us were tasked to fetch water to bring back to the preparation area to cook and wash with. We followed a woman who led us on a beautiful hilly path to the nearby spring, carrying ceramic pots each weighing about two to three pounds. Before we filled the pots with water and clumsily carried them over our heads on the trail back, the woman showed us how to do a preparatory rinse by scooping some water in them with a coconut shell and then swishing it around. It was the purest water that I have ever seen. For the first time in front of me, I recognized the true sacredness of water to human life.