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Chapter 1
On the Margins
Insecurities in Niger and Chad3
Cindy R. Jebb, Laurel J. Hummel, Luis Rios, and Madelfia A. Abb 4
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
—John Donne, “Meditation XVII”
of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1623)
Introduction
John Donne's 1623 passage profoundly recognizes the interconnectedness of humanity and the living world. If a bell were to ring for every