Angela Raven Roberts
Greetings sisters and brothers world wide. I am still incredulous
about what has happened. I join and mourn with you all who remember
him in so many ways and from so may encounters. I am sharing with you
what I sent to EMOPS. I spent many years working with Peter and with
Annalies on developing training for emergency response, translating
his evaluations and reports, formulating them into key humanitarian
principles and actions.As a person, as a professional, he
will be missed. Best regards and love Angela
To all dear friends and colleagues at EMOPS, UNICEF and the
humanitarian sector world wide. I join you in the grieving and
questioning over the untimely passing of friend, colleague, mentor and
pioneer Peter. Many hundreds of people world wide are still reeling as
the news of his passing is reaching the field far and wide. In such a
short cut life Peter was able to build such a wide network of friends
and colleagues and his influence and contributions to deep evidence
based assessments and analysis in the field of health in crisis
situations has been seminal in transforming humanitarian action and
practice. Emergency health response and the work of UN and NGO
agencies would not be the same without his conceptual and practical
contributions to the development of methods, tools and frameworks for
action. Starting as a young relief worker himself, Peter has worked
in, assessed and written about virtually every crises in the last 40
years. His papers, evaluations, and reports are a roll call of events
in humanitarian history and using his own experiences and observations
from early days he had built a formidable body of evidence to critique
and change the way to save lives and develop much needed disaster
preparedness and prevention policies at agency and national government
level. Peter worked round the clock, he was a tireless advocate, a
sympathetic and patient trainer , a prolific writer as well as as
doing all this whilst being a great father to three amazing sons and
loving husband, friend, companion and intellectual partner to
beautiful Annalies. This partnership between those two itself
significant and wondrous, especially for UNICEF in shaping the basic
foundations of its own core responses, bringing public nutrition,
health and all the elements of 'protection' together in a significant
and meaningful way. All of us, the 'fellowship' of the humanitarian
sector, his friends and colleagues from Concern, CDC, Tufts UNICEF
UNHCR WHO who worked with him and knew him will never forget him.
Dynamic Peter, his wry humor, his shy smile, finding time for tennis,
enjoying a good meal after a training session, mentoring the new
incoming students and interns in the emergency world , being serious
and patient in negotiations with officials and representatives. We
wrap our ams around Annalies and the boys. We hug and comfort each
other. We honor his work and commitment. We thank him for all he has
done and what he was and keep him in our hearts forever and know that
his legacy will live on - vibrant, essential and true.
Regards and love to you all.
Karin Sham Poo
Dearest Angela
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful words. Like everybody else, I was shocked when I heard the very sad news about Peter’s passing. And like many others, my thoughts and prayers went to Annalies and the children.
Warm regards
Karin
Greetings sisters and brothers world wide. I am still incredulous
about what has happened. I join and mourn with you all who remember
him in so many ways and from so may encounters. I am sharing with you
what I sent to EMOPS. I spent many years working with Peter and with
Annalies on developing training for emergency response, translating
his evaluations and reports, formulating them into key humanitarian
principles and actions.As a person, as a professional, he
will be missed. Best regards and love Angela
To all dear friends and colleagues at EMOPS, UNICEF and the
humanitarian sector world wide. I join you in the grieving and
questioning over the untimely passing of friend, colleague, mentor and
pioneer Peter. Many hundreds of people world wide are still reeling as
the news of his passing is reaching the field far and wide. In such a
short cut life Peter was able to build such a wide network of friends
and colleagues and his influence and contributions to deep evidence
based assessments and analysis in the field of health in crisis
situations has been seminal in transforming humanitarian action and
practice. Emergency health response and the work of UN and NGO
agencies would not be the same without his conceptual and practical
contributions to the development of methods, tools and frameworks for
action. Starting as a young relief worker himself, Peter has worked
in, assessed and written about virtually every crises in the last 40
years. His papers, evaluations, and reports are a roll call of events
in humanitarian history and using his own experiences and observations
from early days he had built a formidable body of evidence to critique
and change the way to save lives and develop much needed disaster
preparedness and prevention policies at agency and national government
level. Peter worked round the clock, he was a tireless advocate, a
sympathetic and patient trainer , a prolific writer as well as as
doing all this whilst being a great father to three amazing sons and
loving husband, friend, companion and intellectual partner to
beautiful Annalies. This partnership between those two itself
significant and wondrous, especially for UNICEF in shaping the basic
foundations of its own core responses, bringing public nutrition,
health and all the elements of 'protection' together in a significant
and meaningful way. All of us, the 'fellowship' of the humanitarian
sector, his friends and colleagues from Concern, CDC, Tufts UNICEF
UNHCR WHO who worked with him and knew him will never forget him.
Dynamic Peter, his wry humor, his shy smile, finding time for tennis,
enjoying a good meal after a training session, mentoring the new
incoming students and interns in the emergency world , being serious
and patient in negotiations with officials and representatives. We
wrap our ams around Annalies and the boys. We hug and comfort each
other. We honor his work and commitment. We thank him for all he has
done and what he was and keep him in our hearts forever and know that
his legacy will live on - vibrant, essential and true.
Regards and love to you all.
Karin Sham Poo
Dearest Angela
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful words. Like everybody else, I was shocked when I heard the very sad news about Peter’s passing. And like many others, my thoughts and prayers went to Annalies and the children.
Warm regards
Karin
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