Introduction to Going Global: Why psychologists should meet a world of need.

Abstract

It's 1991, and an unarmed Black man, Rodney King, is brutally beaten by Los Angeles police officers, an event that culminated in 6 days of riots and 63 deaths. • It's 2001, and extremists, in the name of Islam and the Muslim people, deliberately crash two airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York, killing 2,753 people. • It's 2005, and in a national forest in Northern Assam, India, a refugee mother and her squatter family from Bangladesh are fearing imminent deportation. • It's 2009, and in Bonn, Germany, delegates to the Education for Sustainable Development conference are confronting issues such as climate change denial around the world. • It's 2015, in Arusha, Tanzania, at the Education for All conference, where attendees are pleading with leaders in higher education to address the dire need for quality teaching across Africa. • It's 2015 still, but now in the village of Aurdak, Afghanistan, and Rokhshana, a 19-year-old woman married against her will, is stoned to death for adultery by Taliban leaders.